Clonakilla are famous for Viognier, but in two different guises. One as the compliment to the exceptional and etheral Shiraz Viognier that has catapulted Tim Kirk to winemaking fame around the world, the other as this wonderfully textured and veluptuous white wine. Full-bodied with potent honeysuckle, pear, ginger and apricot aromas.

Clonakilla's Viognier Nouveau takes a focus on creating a wine that displays the lovely characteristics of their outstanding Viognier at its freshest. Fermented in stainless steel and bottled early, the wine captures the vibrancy of the Viognier fruit in all its youthful glory. With heaps of flavour without the heaviness, this is a style ideally drunk in it's youth.

Gaillard’s Condrieu is drawn from four parcels grown on the terraced slopes of Côte Bellay, Les Patasses (Malleval), Boissey (Chavanay) and La Caille (Condrieu). Each of these sites has soils of fine, decomposing granite. In 2020, the vines here yielded 30 hl/ha of vibrant Viognier fruit, and the wine spent seven months in oak, of which 10% was new. One of our favourite aspects of Gaillard’s whites is their ability to combine intense aromatics and ripe, hedonistic textures with bright mineral refreshment, and this is a textbook example of that paradox. It’s a classically alluring, richly textured Condrieu with scents and flavours of honeysuckle and juicy, macerated peach and spice. It combines the year’s flesh and generosity with juicy buoyancy, great length and a very long, stony finish.

Harvested from plantings in our original vineyard, this wine is a highlight of what this variety has to offer. Pale straw green in colour, the aromas are complex and layered providing fresh citrus driven characters with underlying biscuity oak driven spice. The palate over delivers with a creamy textural component interlaced with savoury lines and a smattering of delicate honeysuckle notes. Fermented in a combination of new French Oak and stainless steel vessels, this wine is mesmerizing.

Gary Farr is Victorian wine royalty and is now making his By Farr wines in collaboration with his son, Nick. The results have been wines of utmost pedigree and character and this Viognier is no exception. While retaining the trademark complexity and palate texture, this Viognier has a wonderful floral lift and aromatic nature to it that makes it undeniably appealing to drink young.