Clonakilla Viognier 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Clonakilla Viognier 2025 on a white background.

Clonakilla Viognier 2025
$60, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Canberra District.

The first word that came to mind was this: emphatic. It’s an outstanding viognier in anyone’s language. In fact it’s so good that if you’ve never bought viognier previously, you still should buy this. It’s plush, smooth-skinned, intense with fruit and spice notes, extraordinarily long through the finish and, simply, alive with character. It turns your head. It makes you stop, and it makes you think. 96 points.

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Clonakilla is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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