Balancing Heart is a vineyard and winery at Wyberba, near Ballandean, on Queensland's Granite Belt, one of Australia's most elevated wine regions. Owners Greg and Lee-Anne Kentish bought the property in July 2020, after years of visiting it when it was known as Balancing Rock.
Winemaker Mike Hayes brings more than 40 years of experience and was named 2017 Australian Winemaker of the Year, still the only Queenslander to win the award. The wines grow from granite soils formed over 250 million years, and the team balances the art and science of winemaking, with sparkling wines such as the Blanc de Blanc among its more adventurous releases. Sustainability and reduced chemical use are central to how the vineyard is farmed.
Balancing Heart was named the 2027 Halliday Dark Horse Winery of the Year, the first Queensland winery to win a major Halliday award. Visitors can enjoy lunch on the deck, vineyard tours and Mike's weekly wine masterclasses.
- Address
- 221 Old Wallangarra Road, Wyberba QLD 4382
- Winemakers
- Mike Hayes
Visit the Balancing Heart website
Regions
Wines
- Balancing Heart Alchemy & Artisan Rock Shiraz — Red
- Balancing Heart Ambrosial & Lush Sagrantino — Red
- Balancing Heart Cabernet Blend Multifariousness & Symbiotic Fusione — Red
- Balancing Heart Carmenere Astrophysics & Garfunkel — Red
- Balancing Heart Carmenere Reserve — Red
- Balancing Heart Chardonnay Acclimatisation & Biomorphic Oaked — White
- Balancing Heart Chardonnay Energy & Grace — White
- Balancing Heart Chardonnay Subterranean & Postmodernism Blanc de Blanc — Sparkling
- Balancing Heart Lagrein Museum Release — Red
- Balancing Heart Montepulciano Archaeology & Baroque Museum Release — Red
- Balancing Heart Montepulciano Geophysics & Choreography — Red
- Balancing Heart Muscat Aphrodisia & Romanticism White Liquer — Dessert
- Balancing Heart Muscat Aphrodisia & Romanticism White Liqueur — Dessert
- Balancing Heart Niche & Montage High Altitude Shiraz — Red
- Balancing Heart Pecorino Phototropism & Ephemeral — Orange
- Balancing Heart Pinot Grigio Botany & Synergy — White
- Balancing Heart Pinot Grigio Wild Yeast — White
- Balancing Heart Pinot Gris Cultivation & Sculpture — White
- Balancing Heart Sagrantino Reserve — Red
- Balancing Heart Saperavi Muse & Epoque — Red
- Balancing Heart Sauvignon Blanc Biome & Ostentatious — White
- Balancing Heart Semillon Androgynous & Environmental Art — White
- Balancing Heart Shiraz Alchemy & Art Rock — Red
- Balancing Heart Shiraz Cabernet Sanguinary & Lavish Saignée — Rosé
- Balancing Heart Shiraz High Altitude — Red
- Balancing Heart Shiraz Mineralogy & Surreal Olde Worlde — Red
- Balancing Heart Shiraz Rock — Red
- Balancing Heart Shiraz Small Batch — Red
- Balancing Heart Verdelho — White
- Balancing Heart Verdelho Essence & Bloom — White
- Balancing Heart Vermentino Acoustics & Artsploration — White
- Balancing Heart Viognier — White
- Balancing Heart Viognier Metaphorphism & Texture — White