Giaconda

Australian Winemaker of the Year 2003 - Gourmet Traveller Magazine
Top 10 World's Best White Wine Makers 2006 - Decanter Magazine
"Exceptional" (Chardonnay); "Excellent" (Warner Vineyard Shiraz) - Langton's Fine Wine Classification IV
5 Star Winery - Halliday Wine Companion

"These wines have a super-cult status and, given the tiny production, are extremely difficult to find; they are sold chiefly through restaurants and by mail order. All have a cosmopolitan edge befitting Rick Kinzbrunner's international winemaking experience. The Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are made in contrasting styles: the Chardonnay tight and reserved, the Pinot Noir more variable, but usually opulent and ripe." - James Halliday

 

  • Giaconda Pinot Noir 2004

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Pinot Noir 2004

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver 94 points!"Fine and silky, this elegant and tightly knit wine needs time to evolve into a Volnay-like expression of pinot. Already quite evolved, it reveals rustic, reductive and briary scents of dark plums, red cherries, smoked meats and...

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    $118.00
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  • [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2004

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2004

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    "Racy yet very textural. Powerful nose with an interesting combination of fruit and mineral whilst the palate has extreme impact and focus. Signature Giaconda flavours of meal and hazelnut, great length and balance. This is all about concentration with...

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    $195.00
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  • Giaconda Shiraz Warner Vineyard 2001

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Shiraz Warner Vineyard 2001

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver Rating 96!"Presenting an exceptional balance between almost flagrant fruit intensity and its lingering savoury finish, this wonderfully concentrated and elegant shiraz offers a perfume of violets, sweet scents of animal hide and freshly...

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    $125.00
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  • Giaconda Chardonnay 2002

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2002

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver 97 points!"Sumptuous and seamless, perhaps revealing less artefact and more fruit purity than the signature 1996 vintage, but it looks capable of attaining similar complexity with bottle-age. Beneath fresh melon and stonefruit flavours,...

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    $195.00
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  • Giaconda Pinot Noir 2002

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Pinot Noir 2002

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver 95 Points!"There's a suggestion of Chinese fivespice beneath its rather pungent and assertive aromas of raspberries, redcurrants and dark cherries, offset by a pleasing background of slightly musk, meaty aromas. It's a powerful, sumptuous...

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    $115.00
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  • Giaconda Chardonnay 2001

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2001

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver 91 points!My pick as Australi's finest chardonnay, extraordinarily structured and complete, expressing a heritage more Burgundian than Australian. From Rick Kinzbrunner at Beechworth in Victoria. Jeremy Oliver's Australian Wine Annual 2004

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    $165.00
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  • Giaconda Pinot Noir 2000

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Pinot Noir 2000

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver 94 Points!"Wild, floral and briary aromas of plums, sweet red berries, tomato, musk, cinnamon and cloves are perfumed and floral. Made in a Pommard-like style it's long and racy, with a tight-knit spine of firm tannins supporting racy and...

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    $97.00
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  • Giaconda Chardonnay 2000

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2000

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver 94 points!My pick as Australi's finest chardonnay, extraordinarily structured and complete, expressing a heritage more Burgundian than Australian. From Rick Kinzbrunner at Beechworth in Victoria. Jeremy Oliver's Australian Wine Annual 2004

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    $165.00
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  • Giaconda Chardonnay 1999

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 1999

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver 94 points!My pick as Australi's finest chardonnay, extraordinarily structured and complete, expressing a heritage more Burgundian than Australian. From Rick Kinzbrunner at Beechworth in Victoria. Jeremy Oliver's Australian Wine Annual 2004

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    $175.00
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  • Giaconda Chardonnay 1998

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 1998

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver 97 Points!"Even more concentrated and luscious than the ground-breaking 1996 vintage of this wine, the latest Giaconda is a typically fragrant, complex, focused and minerally chardonnay whose harmonies of lightly smoky oak, citrus and...

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    $185.00
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