2024 Clonakilla O’Riada Shiraz

Supple and refined with generous red to dark fruits and a long juicy yet savoury pepper and spice laced finish.

Very deep dark red black heart with a vibrant dark red hue. Blackpepper infused aromas of red plum, liquorice and clove show good elevation out of the glass complimented by some smoked meat and spicy earth notes. Supple and refined, the mid weighted palate features generous red to dark plum and liquorice fruits over a subtle vanillin cedar, scorched earth, dried meat and peppered clove back drop. Good underlying freshness with faintly chalky tannins and a long juicy yet savoury pepper and spice laced finish.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 14%

Other Reviews…..
Given the fruit is off the estate and from three other properties, this is an excellent drink, in a finer style. A gorgeous purple-red hue and so fragrant with florals and red fruits (from raspberries to currants) all doused with baking spices and a sprinkle of black pepper. The palate is barely mid-weighted yet finely tuned with silty tannins and acidity that gives life. Up there as one of the best O’Riadas to date. Drink by 2034.
95 points
Jane Faulkner - James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

O’Riada Shiraz is grown on both Clonakilla’s estate vineyard, and on three other Murrumbateman/Canberra District sites. 20% whole bunches, up to three weeks on skins, both free-run and pressings combined, into French oak for 12 months, 25% new. This is top notch. It has flavour and length, but it’s the spread of that flavour and the tannin that comes with it that makes you sit up and take notice. This wine is where the smart money’s going. Cherry-plum, five spice, anise, mint, dark soy and florals, with a talc-like feel to the tannin and a general feeling of etching. Super release of O’Riada. Drink 2026-2034+
95 points
Campbell Mattinson – The Wine Front