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 Chardonnay 2010

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2010

    Region: VIC- Beechworth
    Farming Organic Sustainably-made

    Jeremy Oliver 98 points!"An essay in restrained power and balance. Scented with a complex bouquet of grapefruit, melon, lemon meringue, lime juice and yellow peach knit with smoky, matchstick-like oak, it's backed by creamy, nougat-like notes of ginger...

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    $145.00
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  • Giaconda Shiraz Estate Vineyard 2010

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Shiraz Estate Vineyard 2010

    Region: VIC- Beechworth
    Farming Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

    Jeremy Oliver 93 points!"Complex and structured, this spicy, smoky shiraz marries dark, meaty black and red berry fruits with tight, fine-grained savoury oak and a very fine but robust backbone. Scented with dark flowers, black pepper and minerals, it's...

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    $95.00
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  • [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Shiraz Warner Vineyard 2008

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Shiraz Warner Vineyard 2008

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver Rating 96!"Its peppery, spicy bouquet of deep red and black fruits, dark chocolate and gamey, cedary oak reveals hints of musk, blueberries and briar. Backed by powerful, fine-grained savoury oak, it's medium to full-bodied but densely...

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    $105.00
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  • Giaconda Cabernet 2001

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Cabernet 2001

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    "Classical, aristocratic and almost essential cabernet with pure, pristine fruit, superb oak handling and assertive, firm tannins that will soften over time. Its dusty, cedary, chocolate-like and lightly herbal aromas of violets, cassis and dark plums...

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    $85.00
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  • Giaconda Pinot Noir 2008 (Yarra Valley Beechworth)

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Pinot Noir 2008 (Yarra Valley Beechworth)

    Region: VIC-(Other)

    eRobertParker.com 94 points!"The 2008 Pinot Noir is about a 50 / 50 blend of Yarra and Beechworth fruit. "Yarra on its own can be a little too pure with less structure, and Beechworth can be a little overpowering in that area," Rick informed me. The...

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    $118.00
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  • [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2008 Estate Vineyard

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2008 Estate Vineyard

    Region: VIC- Geelong

    eRobertParker.com 97 points!"This 2008 Chardonnay has incredibly intense aromas of peach blossom, golden delicious apple, pineapple, meal, struck match, ginger shortbread, fennel seed and white pepper going into some pleasantly funky aromas with some air...

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    $195.00
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  • Giaconda Chardonnay 2007 Estate & Nantua Vineyard

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2007 Estate & Nantua Vineyard


    Due to reduced yields from environmental conditions, Giaconda only produced only one white wine in 2007. This is a blend of chardonnay from the estate vineyard (60%), the Nantua vineyard (29%) plus aeolia roussanne (11%). Giaconda has released these at...

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    $95.00
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  • Giaconda Shiraz Warner Vineyard 2005

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Shiraz Warner Vineyard 2005

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Jeremy Oliver Rating 96!"A massively proportioned shiraz by the standards of this vineyard, and one whose meaty ripeness and treatment with bruising, charry oak simply demands time in the cellar. It opens with exaggerated slowness to reveal deep,...

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    $105.00
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  • Giaconda Shiraz Warner Vineyard 2004

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Shiraz Warner Vineyard 2004

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    "The 2004 vintage was an exceptional year for reds; dry, cool weather produced wines that delivered power, finesse and complexity at much lower alcohol levels. In short, ripeness without sweetness, power without the heavy cloying hand of overripe fruit...

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    $105.00
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  • Giaconda Chardonnay 2006 Estate Vineyard

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2006 Estate Vineyard

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    "There are certainly Australian Chardonnays with a cult following. A prime example is Giaconda from the high Ovens Valley in Victoria, made in tiny quantities and difficult to run to earth. This is the sort of wine Americans call funky, i.e. far from the...

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  • Giaconda Chardonnay 2005

    [SOLD-OUT] Giaconda Chardonnay 2005

    Region: VIC- Alpine Valley

    Wine Advocate 95 points!"The 2005 Chardonnay Estate was barrel fermented with native yeasts in French oak, 50% new, where it remained for 18 months. The wine was bottled unfiltered. Medium gold-colored, it delivers aromas of mineral, spice box, baked...

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    $215.00
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  • 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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  • 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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