Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier 2024

 On the 2024 vintage –

2024 was heartbreaking and brilliant. October frosts reduced yields significantly, but the season that followed was evenly warm with rainfall at the appropriate times.
The late summer and early autumn were glorious. The fruit that survived the frost delivered powerful aromas and intense flavour.
The perfume here is really something.
Tim Kirk, Clonakilla.

A few reviews on this release -

The 2024 Shiraz Viognier is so perfumed from the glass, with notes of orange blossom and Boscobel rose, raspberry seed and peppercorns.
The wine is delicately layered, spicy and medium-bodied, with so many nuanced levels of texture and flavor.
In youth, these wines express floral detail and an orange-peel lift, while with age, they begin to show meaty nuances and ethereal, dried-rose-petal complexity.
I love this wine in pretty much every vintage condition; it varies each year, but it remains true to its fine, complex DNA. This is super.
97 points, drink 2025-2044, Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion.


A note from Tim Kirk says ’24 turned out to be heartbreaking and brilliant.
The former because frost in October caused significant damage, the latter because 'the fruit that survived delivered powerful aromas and intense flavour.'
This is splendid, and yes powerful in flavour and structure, yet reined in by poised if plentiful tannins.
Abundantly floral, with pepper, black cherries and plums, soy sauce and spicy oak.
It’s full bodied, rich and ripe yet comes out complex and contained.
96 points, drink 2025-2035, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion.