Such a delight! Such pleasing and easy drinking but feels like pedigree too.
Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
About The Wine
It would be hard to find a consistently better value, better-reviewed wine from a top-flight Shiraz producer in the country than the Hilltops Shiraz from Clonakilla.
A selection of premium vineyards across the region contributing to the wine, it shows all the finesse of premium cool-climate Shiraz/Syrah without the hefty pricetag.
At under $30 this is a no-brainer. If you want Clonakilla in your cellar but aren't regularly quaffing $90+ wines, then the Hilltops is a wine with great pedigree that can be consumed now or in 10 years time.
About Clonakilla
Clonakilla is one of the true icons of the Australian wine scene. Since its inception, it has been one of the leading lights of the Australian cool climate wine insurgence.
They boast one of the most collectable wines in the country in their Shiraz Viognier, a wine of outstanding quality and consistancy over the last two decades.
Whether Shiraz, Riesling or otherwise, every wine in the Clonakilla stable are considered amongst the benchmark examples in Canberra District.
Quite simply, Tim Kirk and his family-owned estate are one of the true gems in the Australian wine industry crown.
Murrumbateman, NSW
From The Producer
This Shiraz is made from grapes selected from five vineyards in the Hilltops district around Young on the South Western Slopes of New South Wales.
2019 was a warm, low yielding year producing some of the darkest colour and blackest fruit character we have seen from the district.
Rich dark fruit through the aroma, concentrated flavours and waves of ripe tannin rolling in from the deep.
Great now if you love wine of power and intensity. Destined for a long life in the cellar for those who are patient.
Blend : Shiraz (100%)
ABV : 14%
Closure : Screw Cap
Drink Until : 2035
Bottle Size : 750ml
Murrumbateman, NSW
Critic Reviews
"Some of the older wines in my cellar are Clonakilla Hilltops Shiraz. There’s older, older, but of the younger older wines, this label hits quite a few slots. Has always been a good proposition. Better yet, the year it won ‘Best Wine Of Show’ etc when I was in my epoch of judging Canberra Regional Wine Show – a wine for the people. This one is too. It’s a significantly excellent release of this shiraz, shimmers in the glass with purple-dark red colour, slips over the palate with a satiny spread of mellifluous fruit and spice, offers fine sheets of lacy tannin and finishes fresh and nicely puckering. Such pretty sweet fruit, floral notes and piquant spice. Such a delight! Such pleasing and easy drinking but feels like pedigree too. A worthy addition to a cellar (and for your glass now, now, now)." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
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