2013 Shiraz Viognier Cellar Door

2013 Shiraz Viognier Cellar DoorA textbook year with a gloriously even, warm late summer early autumn. A larger than average crop of beautifully ripe fruit, coming off the back of three lean years. 23% whole bunches, 5% Viognier.

An average of two weeks on skins

but nothing that judicious hand picking couldn’t conquer

We are excited to be back in Perth in 2026 to connect with our loyal WA customers

Canberra District did not escape the effects of the drought that gripped much of NSW

The perfume here is really something

Ballinderry is Irish for ‘place of the oak’ and is named for the great oak tree planted in the top corner of the property when Clonakilla was established by John Kirk in 1971

ripe apple and bright citrus notes

Every year at Clonakilla we fill a single fermenter with pure Shiraz from our North-East facing T & L vineyard

70 mm of rain in twenty-four hours on February 25 and 26

A rare chance

A blend of Cabernet Franc (38%)

Tim Kirk and the Clonakilla Team