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Clonakilla Riesling 2015
Jeremy’s score 95/100Deeply perfumed, spotlessly made and tightly focused, this pristine riesling has a heady, youthful aroma of white flowers, green apple skin, lime and lemon. Its translucently bright, punchy palate of piercing lime juice flavour overlies a long, powdery backbone and culminates in a racy, invigorating finish of faintly mineral acids. Keep it!
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Clonakilla Riesling 2016
Jeremy’s score 94/100Mineral and penetrative, this pristine, perfumed riesling reveals notes of lime juice, green apple skin and a fine, dusty backbone before finishing taut and crystalline with tangy citrusy acids.
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Clonakilla Riesling 2017
Jeremy’s score 91/100 -
Clonakilla Riesling 2019
Jeremy’s score 92/100Pristine lime, lemon, pear and green apple skin with bright floral notes; mouthwatering apple, pear and white peach extend long and dry towards a lemony finish.
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Clonakilla Semillon Sauvignon Blanc 1999
Jeremy’s score 89/100Rather tart and zesty, this tangy young wine has a lightly herby and grassy aroma of gooseberries, melon and cassis backed by a touch of vanilla oak. It’s forward and vibrant, long and flavoursome, although its lemony acids are just a fraction too assertive.
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Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 1998
Jeremy’s score 96/100Made with 5% viognier and cropped at a miserly and frosted 1.5 tonnes per acre, this beautifully balanced, and tight-knit shiraz has a fragrance of sweet red cherries and raspberries, musky white pepper, cinnamon and clove with briary, meaty undertones. Its precise but willowy palate is brimful of sour-edged cherry fruit and musky, meaty complexity, with a creamy background of mocha and cedar oak, finishing long and savoury with surprisingly assertive fine-grained extract. and lingering notes of animal hide.
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Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2002
Jeremy’s score 96/100Astonishingly perfumed, scented with honeysuckle, apricot blossom and rose petals, cloves and cinnamon, with underlying meaty aromas of intense cassis, raspberries and boysenberries, undergrowth and farm floor. Fine-grained, long and stylised palate whose tightly focused small berry flavours and meaty, farmyard complexity intermesh with powdery tannins, building on the palate towards a lingering, savoury finish.
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Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2003
Jeremy’s score 96/100Ripe, generous and assertive, this northern Rhne-like blend has a meaty fragrance whose viognier-derived perfume enhances the muskiness and spiciness of its earthy, red berry shiraz. Despite its sumptuous texture and powerful flavours, it’s a silky, fine and elegant wine richly endowed with dark fruits and framed by firm, fine-grained tannins. Savoury, tightly focused and supremely balanced.
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Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2004
Jeremy’s score 97/100A first-rate wine of charm, focus and elegance. Its vibrant peppery perfume of pristine black and red berry fruits is both floral and spicy, revealing superbly integrated cedar/vanilla oak. Fine and supple, its smooth and silky palate bursts with intense flavours of blackberries, redcurrants and cassis wound tightly around some very classy and fine-grained tannins. Finishing long, with a persistent core of dark fruit and lingering undertones of fennel, anis and cinnamon, it’s almost too easy to enjoy now. Try to hang on to some, at least.
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Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2005
Jeremy’s score 95/100Dusty, musky aromas of dried herbs, cracked pepper, raspberries, cassis and blackberries are backed by polished cedar/vanilla oak and lifted by floral undertones suggestive of cherries and cranberries, plus an exotic, spicy lift from viognier. Supple, fine and silky, it’s surprisingly sumptuous and generous, with a vibrant presence of intense fruit over a tightly knit chassis of firm, but particularly pliant tannins. Likely to build more richness and structure with bottle-age, and showing an exemplary integration of fruit, oak and tannin.
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Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2007
Jeremy’s score 97/100Opulent and heady, with a deep, meaty perfume of raspberries, cassis, blue flowers and marzipan that reveals charcuterie-like undertones. Its smooth, deeply layered palate reveals powerful dark plum, cherry and berry flavours powder-coated by fine, grainy and drying tannin. Long, complete and impactful, it soaks up its savoury, fine-grained oak influences, finishing with lingering sour-edged fruit and meaty undertones.
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Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2008
Jeremy’s score 97/100Building towards a crescendo of richness and strength, this is a stellar wine of rare balance, poise and elegance. Its floral, musky and spicy bouquet of pristine black and red berries, ground pepper and cedar/vanilla oak precede a silky-smooth, supple and seamless palate whose piercingly intense berry/plum flavours, briary undertones and seasoned oak deliver exceptional length and harmony. Precisely focused, it finishes quite savoury and spicy, with emphatic depth and presence.
