Clonakilla Canberra District Shiraz Viognier 2008

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Archived Wines » Clonakilla Canberra District Shiraz Viognier 2008

Region Murrumbateman, ACT
Type Red
Size 750ml
Alcohol 14%

This silky cool-climate Shiraz Viognier added another chapter to its rich history by winning a place in the top 10 Shiraz at the World’s Greatest Shiraz Challenge run by Winestate magazine in 2010. It was also named best Shiraz in the $80 to $100 bracket. Wave after wave of different flavours roll across your palate – blackberries, cherries, soy, smoked meats and pepper. Absolutely gorgeous mouthfeel thanks to the ultra-silky tannins. - JL

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97Points

James Halliday

says:

As expected the wine is young and buoyant, with a highly fragrant perfume of red fruit, fresh blackberry, violets, roasted meat and a little tar; the palate reveals the true potential of this superb wine with a cascading array of flavours and thrillingly silky tannin, poised acidity and a peacocks tail on the very long and precise palate.

95Points

Campbell Mattinson Wine Front

says:

It’s a dense, headstrong wine, chocked with blackberry, soy, eucalypt and cherry-plum flavours and flecked with trademark pepper spice. It has all its components in place, but it isn’t up and running yet. What strikes you about the wine as a youngster though is its nebbiolo-like shape. I’ve not seen this in a Clonakilla shiraz-viognier before. It’s almost light through the middle, before being strong and authoritative through the finish. Lighter in flavour but stronger in impact, perhaps. It should be great as a mature wine. (written July 2009)

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