2023 Ballinderry Cellar Door

2023 Ballinderry Cellar DoorBallinderry is Irish for place of the oak and is named for the great oak tree planted in the top corner of the property when Clonakilla was established by John Kirk in 1971. 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 the heat arrived towards the end of summer flowing into a gentle and generally sunny

persistent texture and flavour

2025 was a lovely vintage

It has delivered an elegant

coming off the back of three lean years

You really have to smell this wine to believe the intensity and purity of fruit we received in the 2023 Shiraz Viognier

He was John’s cousin

” - Tyson Stelzer

Every year at Clonakilla we fill a single fermenter with pure Shiraz from our North-East facing T & L vineyard

Hope to see you there

Drink now or cellar with confidence for 10+ years

and the vines embarked on the long but determined journey of ripening grapes through the warm late summer and mild but generally sunny autumn

the essence of cool-climate Shiraz