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

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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