The 2024 Juniper Karridale Chardonnay made a clean sweep of the 2025 Royal Perth Wine Show, taking four trophies including the show's top honour: Wine of Show. 

🏆 Wine of Show – Royal Perth Wine Show 2025
🏆 Best White Wine – Royal Perth Wine Show 2025
🏆 Best WA Wine – Royal Perth Wine Show 2025
🏆 Best Chardonnay – Royal Perth Wine Show 2025

The first complete Bretherton vintage was 2024, and the response has been emphatic. The Cornerstone Karridale Chardonnay 2024 was awarded Wine of Show at the Royal Perth Wine Awards in 2025, sweeping Best White, Best WA Wine and Best Chardonnay in the same outing. The Canvas Malbec 2025 won Best Sustainable Wine at the Margaret River Wine Show Trophies. In November 2025 Bretherton himself was awarded the Basil Sellers Prize as Dux of the Len Evans Tutorial, a credentialling exercise James Halliday has called "the greatest wine school in the world".

The portfolio sits in three tiers. The Cornerstone wines are the single-vineyard expressions of Wilyabrup and Karridale Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, and where the critical conversation is centred.

Critically, Juniper has too long been one of the most underrated names in Margaret River. Huon Hooke at The Real Review has called the estate "one of the elite", with particular praise for the pair of single-subregion Cornerstone Chardonnays. Paul Edwards at The West Australian has called Juniper "criminally underrated, yet pioneering". Ray Jordan has noted that the vineyards have been producing first-class wines for close to fifty years.