
Ballandean Estate wins Tripadvisor® Travellers’ Choice® Award 2024
Ballandean Estate is pleased to announce it has been recognised in Tripadvisor’s® Travellers’ Choice® Awards for 2024, making this the third consecutive year for Queensland’s oldest family-run winery. The award honours businesses that consistently earn great reviews, placing these winners placing these winners among the 10% of all listings on Tripadvisor globally.

Trailblazing family legacy
Ballandean Estate Wines sustained its reputation for excellence through consistent delivery of memorable cellar door experiences. It continues the Puglisi family’s trailblazing legacy as outstanding advocates for Queensland’s wine industry and as some of Australia’s most influential people in wine: Winemakers Federation Board memberships, Samuel Basset award winners, and export market innovators for Shiraz trade to China. With the winery now in its fourth and fifth generations, the family continues to be wine pioneers in the Granite Belt region.
Fourth generation vigneron Leeanne Puglisi-Gangemi says,
“Our family has been at the forefront of developing and promoting the Queensland wine industry for almost 100 years. And we are thrilled to take out this hat trick with Tripadvisor’s® Travellers’ Choice® Awards. Such an honour!
Leeanne Puglisi-Gangemi
“Ballandean Estate may be Queensland’s oldest family-run winery, but we built our reputation on innovation and a splash of rebellion. The Barreloom, which is the Granite Belt’s first wine lounge, is going from strength to strength.
We’ve just released our its first minimal intervention wine series, thanks to young gun winemaker Boxi Zhen, who is literally shaking things up in his second vintage here.
“Ballandean Estate is soon to release some fresh new wine styles.
“We’d like to thank our 60,000-plus visitors who came through our cellar door over the year, and especially those who took the time to leave a review. We are deeply grateful to our cellar door dream team, the people that bring their passion for wine to work and share it every day. We will continue to expand Ballandean Estate’s visitor offering.”
As the world’s largest travel guidance platform, Tripadvisor has unparalleled authority with travellers and diners. This award is based on genuine feedback from anyone in the community who has visited and left an authentic, first-hand review on Tripadvisor over a 12-month period, making it a valuable and trustworthy designation of great places to visit.
“Congratulations to Ballandean Estate on its recognition in Tripadvisor’s® Travellers’ Choice® Awards for 2024,” said John Boris, Chief Growth Officer at Tripadvisor.
“Travellers’ Choice honours businesses that consistently demonstrate a commitment to hospitality excellence. This means you have made such a memorable impact on your visitors that many of them took the time to go online and leave a great review about their experience. People rely on Tripadvisor’s Travellers’ Choice seal to help them navigate the myriad of things to see, eat and do across the globe. We hope this recognition continues to drive business to you in 2024 and beyond.”
To see Ballandean Estate’s reviews, visit Tripadvisor here.