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  • Country ranking ?

    138
  • Producer ranking ?

    4
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    spring lamb served pink with fresh herbs

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The Story

The south facing 12 acre vineyard – located in the sleepy picturesque and biscuit-coloured Murrumbateman landscape – is planted on sandy clay loams over friable clays. The need to be different during the 1980s boutique winery boom moved Clonakilla away from the mainstream in 1986 and into the unproven but tantalising marriage potential and astounding nuances of Viognier as a co-factor in the vinification of Shiraz. This is a supreme example of...

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Tasting note

color

Ruby red and Bright

flavors

Pepper, Floral, Perfumed and Spice

taste

Medium-bodied, Elegant and Fresh

Written Notes

The first in a long run of warm vintages – nine in a row.

7% Viognier; 305 whole bunches; three days pre-ferment maceration and then 9 to 13 days on skins; 12 months in oak with 1/3rd of that new, from Francois Freres, Sirugue and Bossuet. 14.1%. It was the last 'wet' year for a decade.

Received a 'Wine of the Year' award on release (there are plenty of these awards strewn around in Australia but that, in no way, diminishes the achievement) and looks just as good, if not better, now. Bright vibrant colours. A fresh, clean wine, wonderfully balanced. There are red jube-y notes and hints of raspberry coulee. A silky, persistent wine. Lingers in the mind like a rare sunset. Still has decades ahead of it.

 

  • 95p

Full ruby-red. Perfumed, ethereal aromas of violet, white pepper, dark cherry and apricot blossom laced with musky spices and supported by sweet chocolate and mocha oak notes. Ripe and sumptuous but elegant and finely balanced, with intense small berry and honeysuckle flavors and powder-fine tannins building on the long, lingering and meaty finish of exceptional persistence.

  • 96p
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Origin

Canberra District

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None
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