Clonakilla Viognier 2024
- 94
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Always one of Australia’s most exciting Viogniers, from the Canberra region, fermentation is in large format French oak – demi-muids and puncheons – with considerable time on lees to follow. The colour is a gleaming gold/yellow with flecks of green. The typical aromas of apricots, citrus and ginger are present in spades and there is even a pleasing flick of lemongrass and what seems to be the merest whiff of matchstick. Beautifully perfumed. This is still very young and it will surely be better in twelve months and then drink superbly for the following three to five years. A wine with bright yet unobtrusive acidity, impeccable balance, good intensity and serious length, it will only enhance the reputation of Viognier from this winery, not to mention provide wine lovers with some real pleasure.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
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