Our Achievements

De Iuliis Wrapped 2022

December 1, 2022Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Wines

As 2022 comes to an end, we took a look back at your favourite wines of the year. These are deemed our top sellers - through our cellar door, wine club, wholesale and export. 2021 Estate Chardonnay There's no surprise to us that this is our number one seller. Our wine club members love it,...

Cellar door guests at the De Iuliis Hunter Valley winery celebrate with a glass of premium wine

James Halliday’s Top 100 of 2022

November 21, 2022Our Achievements, Our News, Our Vineyard, Our Wines

We are super proud to have been included in James Halliday's Top 100 of 2022. With 168 wines submitted for the whites over $30 class, it's a massive honour to have our 2017 Aged Release Semillon given this prestigious accolade. Only 150 dozen. Aged? Prime of its life, with yet more to come. It was...

Winemaker Mike De Iuliis samples red shiraz wine

Newcastle Herald: Red-hot run for De Iuliis

October 25, 2022Our Achievements, Our Events, Our News, Our Vineyard, Our Wines, Shiraz

Among its four trophies, the De Iuliis family wine company took the Douglas Seabrook Trophy for the best red wine of show, the Hector Tulloch Trophy for best shiraz and the James Busby Trophy for best mature three-year-old and older shiraz with the De Iuliis 2019 Limited Release Shiraz. It won't be available for some...

Double the recognition for De Iuliis

October 16, 2022Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News

De Iuliis Wines, for the second year running, received the elite recognition of being a 5 Underlined Red Star Winery at the 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Awards. Only the top 3% of wineries in Australia are bestowed this honour and it is a testament to the quality and consistency of the wines De Iuliis produce....

2022 NSW Wine Awards

October 12, 2022Our Achievements, Our News, Our Wines

Celebrating the best of NSW Wine as De Iuliis takes home a bevy of medals at the NSW Wine Show De Iuliis wines, recognised as a leading producer of Hunter Valley wines was awarded 4 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze medals at the preeminent 2022 NSW Wine Awards. Winemaker Mike De Iuliis said “78...

Halliday Wine Companion: Breaking ground for innovation in the Hunter Valley

September 26, 2022Around the Vineyard, Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Vineyard

The Hunter Valley is know for producing high-quality, traditional and consistent wines, but there's a new wave of producers pushing the boundaries to deliver wines of innovation, too. The Hunter Valley is a region that has built its reputation around relatively traditional winemaking, signature varieties, family values, and doing what’s been perceived as 'what the Hunter does...

Our 2020 Estate Shiraz – Buy of the Week from Huon Hooke at The Real Review

September 20, 2022Our Achievements, Our News, Our Wines

De Iuliis Shiraz 2020, Hunter Valley, AUD $25 Mike De Iuliis and his team have somehow come up with a red from the disastrous Hunter smoke-affected vintage of 2020, and it’s a beauty. The colour is deep, dense red-purple and there are reserved aromas of blackberry, earth and a twist of black pepper, the palate...

Hunter Valley Winemaker Mike De Iuliis and his Dad Joss De iuliis celebrate in a vineyard with the groodle Lucy

Hunter Valley Magazine: Keeping it sustainable, the future of winemaking

September 10, 2022Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Vineyard, Pecorino

De Iuliis Wines again took out the Best Red Wine of Show for the third year running at the Hunter Valley Wine Show. In addition to producing the Hunter Valley’s best Shiraz, they were also awarded a further three trophies and have been recognised as the 2022 Hunter Valley Cellar Door of the Year. De...

Four times the glory for De Iuliis Wines at the 2022 Hunter Valley Wine Show

August 20, 2022Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News, Our Wines

De Iuliis Wines, known throughout the Hunter Valley wine industry for their highly awarded wines took home four trophies at the 2022 Hunter Valley Wine Show. The star of the show was undoubtedly the 2019 Limited Release Shiraz which won the prestigious trophy for the Best Red Wine of Show. This is the third year...

Our 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Results

August 4, 2022Our Achievements, Our Events, Our News, Our Vineyard, Our Wines

With the 2023 Halliday Wine Companion results just released we are thrilled to maintain our 5 Red Star underlined status. This means we are considered an outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity. The red underline means we have a long track record of excellence, having held a 5-star rating continuously for...

Hunter Valley winemaker Mike De Iuliis has fun with a glass of red wine

Selector Magazine: Hunting Heritage

July 19, 2022Our Achievements, Our News

This year, De Iuliis - one of the Hunter Valley's most celebrated producers - turns 20. Despite its relative youth, it has achieved a great deal, proving that while the Hunter makers less than 3% of this country's wine, quality and character outweigh quantity any day of the week. Wine is a living chemical symphony...

The Shout: Legends of the Hunter Valley celebrates the region’s wine stars

May 23, 2022Our Achievements, Our Cellar Door, Our News

At an awards ceremony hosted by the Hunter Valley Wine and Tourism Association last Thursday, the 15th Annual Legends of the Hunter Valley awards looked ahead to 200 years of the Hunter, and placed a spotlight on tourism operators. An audience of 350 guests, including industry leaders from around the Hunter Region gathered for the Legends...