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"Excellent flavour for a wine at this price" Campbell Mattinson
“It’s a big, warm wine for a Bannockburn shiraz but it pulls the style off." Campbell Mattinson
'If you're going to do this sort of thing, then do it well. And this is done to perfection."
The wine is a wonderful mix of all that is great about McLaren Vale
Bin 0 2010 won two Trophies at the Royal Sydney Wine Show 2012
Smells and tastes rich and luxurious - blackberry, plum, mint and dark chocolate, leather and toasty vanilla oak. Full bodied and awash with lush sweet fruit that’s offset by savoury and very adult bitter chocolate flavours. Tannins are submerged, smooth and seemingly fine grained...
The wine has a spicy bouquet with ripe berry fruit flavours that carry through to the palate. Subtle, well-integrated oak and a firm, fine tannin finish balanced by natural acidity underpin the flavours.
With 95 Halliday points, a retail price of $25 and made by the former Best's winemaker Simon Clayfield, this wine was always going to walk out the door.
Clonakilla is a small, family winery dedicated to making distinctive, handcrafted wines and needs no introduction. It's reputation precedes it.
95 Points: James Halliday