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Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2000
Jeremy’s score 91/100A deeply flavoured wine of some character. Elegant and creamy, it’s just a fraction hollow and sappy. Its piercing cassis and spicy plum fruit, light French oak and musky perfume of violets and blackberries are perfectly offset by varietal qualities of white and black pepper, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Good alternative to the estate shiraz.
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Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2003
Jeremy’s score 87/100A meaty, spicy and rather concentrated shorter-term red with a perfume of dark plums and cherries, violets, mint and black pepper. Oak plays second fiddle behind some rather cooked, spicy and thickly coated confiture-like plum fruit. What would appear to be vine stress shows through as a general lack of brightness and vitality, while the palate finishes earthy, savoury and just a little short.
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Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2004
Jeremy’s score 89/100A slightly cooked but very well made wine with loads of spicy and meaty complexity and character. Its vibrant and briary aromas of cassis and plums are backed by a peppery whiff of bacon, cinnamon and sage, while its firm and moderately full palate presents a soft, but up-front expression of currant-like fruit and a herbal note suggestive of Darjeeling tea.
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Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2006
Jeremy’s score 88/100A very well handled wine from a slightly cooked and meaty expression of redcurrant, berry, plum and raisin-like fruit that retains a spicy, peppery perfume. Framed by a firmish, fine-grained and drying extract, it’s backed by herbal nuances and steadily reveals more depth of minty fruit.
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Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2007
Jeremy’s score 93/100 -
Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2008
Jeremy’s score 90/100 -
Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2009
Jeremy’s score 89/100 -
Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2010
Jeremy’s score 95/100 -
Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2011
Jeremy’s score 87/100 -
Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2012
Jeremy’s score 92/100 -
Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2013
Jeremy’s score 89/100Deeply scented with pepper and spice, sweet floral notes and fresh, almost confiture-like aromas of cassis and raspberries backed by cedar/vanilla oak, this is a medium to full-bodied shiraz of elegance and fine-grained charm. Its initially sweet, juicy flavours of small berries and plums reveals faintly herbal, dusty undertones, become marginally hollow over its fine, crunchy backbone before finishing with fresh acids and a modest persistence.
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Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz 2014
Jeremy’s score 92/100
