Clonakilla, based at high altitude (around 700mts) in the Canberra Highlands, is one of Australia’s cult wineries; demand for their wines vastly exceeds supply every year.
Sean O’Riada is one of the heroes of modern Ireland. A talented musician and composer, he is credited with taking traditional Irish music out of the kitchens and pubs of Ireland and putting it on the concert stages of the world. He died, prematurely, in 1971, the year Clonakilla was established by John Kirk. He was John’s cousin.
The O’Riada is a quintessential Canberra Shiraz, brilliantly opulent and packed with spice, floral notes and ripe dark berry fruit.
“Spice, red flowers, pepper and wood smoke all appear and promptly disappear on the bouquet, reforming in a different order next time around; the ensuing palate, a pond without a single ruffle. Red cherry infuses all one’s senses with a constant framework of spice. The faultless balance will still be sustaining the wine 30 years hence! What value!” 97/100pts James Halliday
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