Coriole

5 Star Winery Rating - Halliday Wine Companion

"While Coriole was not established until 1967, the cellar door and gardens date back to 1860, when the original farm houses that now constitute the cellar door were built. The oldest shiraz forming part of the estate plantings dates back to 1917, and since '85, Coriole has been an Australian pioneer of sangiovese and the Italian white variety fiano. Shiraz has 65% of the plantings, and it is for this variety that Coriole is best known." - James Halliday

"Coriole was started by my family in the 1960s. It is a beautiful spot looking south towards many McLaren Vale vineyards, the old Willunga Range and the Fleurieu Bight. The estate has a lot of Shiraz vines, the oldest planted in 1919. There is also our first Sangiovese vineyard planted in 1985 as well as the first Fiano vineyard (2001), both the oldest of their kind in Australia.

Winemaking at Coriole is a very traditional process but we also like to experiment and try different techniques to see the influence on wine style. Red wines are mainly open fermented in stainless steel or old wax lined concrete tanks. Ferments are hand plunged. A portion of new oak is used for many of our estate reds but many wines such as Sangiovese and Redstone Shiraz are specifically matured in older oak to gain maturity with minimum contribution of oak flavour and extract in the wine." - Mark Lloyd, Coriole

 

  • [SOLD-OUT] Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1995 (Damaged Label)

    [SOLD-OUT] Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1995 (Damaged Label)

    Region: SA- McLaren Vale

    Jeremy Oliver Rating 95!"An excellent vintage developed piercing flavours of wild, briary ripe red and black berries offset by spicy influences of fennel and dark olives, plus smoky vanilla and cedary oak. Long and balanced, its lingering savoury...

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    $85.00
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  • Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1994

    [SOLD-OUT] Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1994

    Region: SA- McLaren Vale

    Jeremy Oliver 94 points!"An idiosyncratic wine in this range, the 1994 leaves nothing to doubt with its exaggerated ripe and tarry plum/prune fruit, its massively sweet American oak and its wild, floral and musky aromas. You'll love or hate its...

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    $90.00
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  • Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1992

    [SOLD-OUT] Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1992

    Region: SA- McLaren Vale

    Jeremy Oliver 95 points!Very stylish and restrained, this taut and reserved shiraz has a bouquet of violets, small berries and creamy oak with a spicy backgroud of polished leather, licorice, cloves and white pepper. Its sweet cassis fruit is perfectly...

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    $95.00
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  • Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1991

    [SOLD-OUT] Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1991

    Region: SA- McLaren Vale

    Jeremy Oliver 94 points!"A powerful wine of strength and density, whose deep flavours of musky ripe red berries are thickly coated with almost buttery/caramel and dark chocolate oak."Jeremy Oliver, Jul 2000

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    $95.00
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  • [SOLD-OUT] Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1989

    [SOLD-OUT] Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 1989

    Region: SA- McLaren Vale

    The first Lloyd Reserve has a smoky aroma of sweet earth and leather, with a still vibrant perfume of musk and raspberries, chocolate and cedary oak. It's wild and briary, supple yet sumptuous, retains fruit and oak sweetness. It's an elegant and...

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    $95.00
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