Clonakilla

5 Star Winery - Halliday Wine Companion, "the quality of wines is exceptional" - James Halliday
2013 Gourmet Traveller Winemaker of the Year (Tim Kirk)

"new benchmark for cooler-climate Australian Shiraz, and a serious rival for the classiest Côte-Rôtie." - Max Allen, Decanter Magazine 2002 (re: Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier)

"The indefatigable Tim Kirk, with an inexhaustible thirst for knowledge, is the winemaker and manager of this family winery founded by his father, scientist Dr John Kirk. It is not at all surprising that the quality of the wines is exceptional, especially the Shiraz Viognier, which has paved the way for numerous others, but remains the icon. Demand for the wines outstrips supply..." - James Halliday

"Clonakilla is a small, family winery dedicated to making distinctive, handcrafted wines. Our wines are made in limited quantities and can be a little hard to find. They are worth the search. We make a range of wines, but our speciality is wines made from two varieties which have their original home in the Northern Rhone valley in France: Syrah (Shiraz in Australia) and Viognier. Our flagship is a Shiraz Viognier blend."- Clonakilla

[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Viognier 2010

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Tyson Stelzer 95 points! "The cooler season makes this the most sophisticated Clonakilla Viognier in years, ecompassing contrasting moods of textural and silky, creamy and taut, spicy and fruity"Tyson Stelzer, WBM October 2011

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$50.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Riesling 2013

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Tyson Stelzer 95 points!Who knows where this beautifully executed and stunning Clonakilla finds its chalky, talcy mineral structure. Perhaps from decomposed granite soils, perhaps cool nights, or perhaps direct from God himself, via the fervour of Tim...

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$28.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla O'Riada Shiraz 2011

Region: ACT (Canberra)

"Light in colour and flavour but it's certainly not without merit. Indeed it's delicious. Asian spice and apricot, cedary smoky oak and deli meats. Good ripeness. Dark cherries. Not a dense wine but excellent complexity. Elegant. Fine tannin. Remarkable...

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2013

Region: ACT (Canberra)

"2013 saw a return to the warm, sun-bathed seasons we experienced through the 2000s. The days were warm and the nights cool, a weather pattern that has given the wine great colour, deep aroma and perfectly formed tannins. There is plenty of spicy,...

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$35.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2013

Region: ACT (Canberra)

"2013 was a remarkable vintage. The days were warmer and the nights cooler than average and the rain came just when we needed it. The 2013 carries the extra degree of opulence that you see in the great years. It is beautifully perfumed; ethereal,...

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$120.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Viognier 2009

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Nick Stock 94 Points!"The deeper colour gives a hint to this wine's intensity and the time in wood. It has complex peach and apricot custard aromas, nice oak spice adding interest, and hints of tangelo and soft peach/apricot stone fruits. Terrific...

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$49.95

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2012

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Tyson Stelzer 96 Points!A lighter, savoury and perfumed Clonakilla promising exceptional longevity. It's explosively fragrant, refreshingly tangy and exotically spicy, scaffolded with superfine tannin structure and singing with potpourri, cardamon,...

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$125.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2012

Region: ACT (Canberra)

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$29.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla O'Riada Shiraz 2010

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Tyson Stelzer 94 points! "Cooler and more pepper-edged than ever, with a chiselled, angular palate of honed, gravelly tannins. Give it time to unravel into something quite profound."Tyson Stelzer, WBM October 2011

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Viognier 2008

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Campbell Mattinson 95 points!"This is the 'real deal' Clonakilla viognier, matured in French oak and wild yeast fermented. It's definitely grown in the Canberra District wine region. Highly textural. Obviously, but seductively, oaked. Cedarwood and...

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$48.95

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2011

Region: ACT (Canberra)

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$28.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2011

Region: ACT (Canberra)

- Campbell Mattinson 93 points! 'Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier is my Grange, if you like it's the wine I look forward to tasting the most each year. It's also the only wine I buy every year. I opened a 2003 Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier recently and it's still...

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$115.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla O'Riada Shiraz 2009

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Tyson Stelzer 93 points!"An opulent vintage has made this a higher alcohol style than the norm for this label, making it an earlier-drinking priority. A lick of Viognier adds a perfumed lift to its fine-grained white pepper and grippy plum skin palate...

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$40.95

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2009

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Jeremy Oliver Wine of the Year 2011 "The flagship [Shiraz Viognier]...shows the brooding but silky, plush magic of shiraz co-fermented with viognier. It's denser and more concentrated than the O'Riada, with a fine, more tannic bite. Our bottle...

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$135.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Ballinderry Cabernet Blend 2005

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Campbell Mattinson 93 Points!"Clonakilla's Ballinderry is a blend of pretty much equal parts cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc " and again here, it's in excellent form. It's a lovely Bordeaux blend, begging for roast lamb. Firm, powdery,...

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$65.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2010

Region: ACT (Canberra)

"There's no question that the 2010 vintage was difficult in the Canberra District but sometimes " difficult can be a good thing. Less hedonostic than recent releases " which isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you have a line of these running in your...

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$125.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2008

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Jeremy Oliver 97 points!Building towards a crescendo of richness and strength, this is a stellar wine of rare balance, poise and elegance. Its floral, musky and spicy bouquet of pristine black and red berries, ground pepper and cedar/vanilla oak precede...

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$120.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla O'Riada Shiraz 2008

Region: ACT (Canberra)

Campbell Mattinson 94 points!"It's matured in 20 percent new oak and includes 6 percent co-fermented viognier. Whole bunches and warm fermented. It's different to the flagship Clonakilla shiraz-viognier. Stalkier, meatier. It's also from a very good red...

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla Riesling 2009

Region: ACT (Canberra)

"Clonakilla is a small producer in the Canberra wine region that has pioneered the Cote-Rotie-styled expression of shiraz and viognier blend in Australia, creating the definitive expression in he process. It has also refined its own mineral and savoury...

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$35.00

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[SOLD-OUT] Clonakilla O'Riada Shiraz 2007

Region: ACT (Canberra)

-Campbell Mattinson 94 points!'It's made from Murrumbateman grapes, grown on a selection of (non-Clonakilla estate) vineyards. It has about two percent viognier included and was fermented using whole bunches. One year in French oak, 35 percent of it new...

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