2023 Clonakilla O'Riada Shiraz

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Clonakilla |Canberra District |Shiraz
Fragrant Shiraz from Clonakilla, and one of their very best value wines.
4.5
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
2 Reviews

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The 2023 Clonakilla O'Riada Shiraz offers an elegant expression of what cool-climate Canberra Shiraz does best. With its rich, fragrant bouquet and supple, dark berry fruit, it’s a perfect tribute to the legacy of both the region and the name it honours. Named after Irish composer Sean O’Riada, a cousin of Clonakilla’s founder, this wine carries a deeply personal connection—much like O’Riada’s music, which brought traditional Irish culture to the world stage.

The 2023 vintage is particularly exciting, thanks to a long, cool growing season that gave the grapes time to develop beautifully nuanced flavours. You’ll find ripe red and dark fruits, hints of spice, and lovely floral notes that keep you coming back for more. Sourced from Clonakilla’s estate vineyards and trusted growers in Hall and Murrumbateman, this Shiraz is both graceful and powerful, with silky tannins and a vibrant acidity that gives it real staying power.

At a fraction of the price of the iconic Shiraz Viognier, the O’Riada is a serious bargain for its quality. It's a wine you can enjoy now for its youthful energy or cellar for several years to see it evolve into something even more special. Whether you’re opening a bottle for a casual mid-week dinner or tucking it away for a future occasion, the 2023 O’Riada Shiraz is Canberra District winemaking at its finest—refined, balanced, and endlessly enjoyable.

96 points
"While Kirk’s shiraz viognier – about which you’ll hear more from me in coming months – is justly celebrated, this is a light he can keep under a bushel no longer. It is one of Australian wine’s biggest bargains..."
- Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)

94 points
"It’s a delightful drink, pretty, floral, solid where it needs to be, bright and balanced. Personally I’d have no hesitation in buying this wine."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

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 2023 vintage was the third cool growing season in a row and our latest harvest in over a decade. The spring in particular was cool and wet and the vines were slow to get going. Thankfully some genuine warmth arrived towards the end of summer flowing into a gentle and generally sunny autumn, delivering some gorgeous flavours in the grapes.

The O’Riada is a quintessential Canberra Shiraz, fully charged with spice, floral notes and ripe red fruits.

96 points - While Kirk’s shiraz viognier – about which you’ll hear more from me in coming months – is justly celebrated, this is a light he can keep under a bushel no longer. It is one of Australian wine’s biggest bargains. A exultation of berries and spice: raspberry, blackberry, sandalwood, mace. Sculpted detail, intricate and entwined. Tannins deployed in microfine granules." - Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)

94 points - "I cannot fault this wine. It’s so well spiced, without being excessively so. It’s rushed with cherry-plum fruit, it’s both refreshing and satiny, it folds, carefully, cedarwood and deli-meat into the fruit, and the tannin is a masterclass of the fine, filigreed kind. After all that, or over-arching it, is the fact that it’s a delightful drink, pretty, floral, solid where it needs to be, bright and balanced. Personally I’d have no hesitation in buying this wine." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
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    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    Punching above it's weight!

    This is a beautiful and interesting wine to open and drink today, in fact for me it's drink on release or wait 10 years.

    Floral nose, lightly spiced and good length of flavor. It's quality drinks closer to it's older sibling the SV for a third of the price. Bargain

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    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Killa Drop

    Great Expression of Cool Climate Shiraz

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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 consistency 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.

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