Clarendon Hills is a small family run winery based in Clarendon, South Australia. With a philosophy to convey variety expression at an ultimate level, hand performance of every task ensures each step of the process is exacting to specification. Making wine in an old-school, low technology fashion - each decision bases the sight, smell, taste and interpretation as its mechanics.
Winemaking at Clarendon Hills starts and finishes in the vineyards and everything we do is guided by Romans interpretation and tasting impression.
Every step of the winemaking process is undertaken by a small team of five people, with a collective 50 years vintage experience. It is the pride, experience and professionalism of our team that ensures we continue to produce some of the worlds finest wines, year upon year.
Nose: A pure and perfumed cabernet berry lift headlines this vineyard. Blue fruits in background with lavender, violet and rose petal florals are denominated by savoury notes of couch leather, cigar and tobacco.
Nose: Espresso, cigar tobacco, bitumen, Kalamata, cherry skins, sweet earthiness. Exceptional clarity within the multi‐layered and complex expression. Each aspect of the composition complements and mutually defines the horizon of the savory profile...
Nose: Seamlessly integrated extract provides a smoothly textured, classically structured expression that is fuller, rounder and more robust with varietal depth and primary nuance.
Palate: Seamlessly integrated extract provides a smoothly textured, ...
Nose: Softly perfumed floral notes head the background of complex red, blue and black fruits and a creamy blueberry muffin character persists throughout the spectrum. A plush length of intensity.
Nose: Lifted fruits display red cherry, kirsch, red‐currant with ginger and white pepper edges to a somewhat more spiced and elegant floral vineyard expression in 2006.
Palate: Spiced red fruit notes integrate with the lightly textured tannins....
Colour: Deep Ruby grater density of colour than Clarendon
Nose: Ripe black fruits of raspberry and blackberry radiate this fruit driven nose. Slight rose petal and kirsch characters in the background offer definition to the otherwise roundness of the plush berry basket nose.
Nose: Ripe cherry, strawberry and a violet character dominate the nose. Recessed and spice driven the Kangarilla vineyard is elegant and light on its feet.
Palate: Focused and precise, the primary influence is evident in the structure and the bri...
Nose: Dried herbs, brightly perfumed florals and spiced berry fruits intermingle in this lineated and refined nose. Plenty of background yet to come out. The evolving aroma offers whisps of dried stone fruit, sarsaparilla, kirsch liqueur, Cherry‐Ripe ...
Nose: Spicey mulberry, blackberries, bitumen and cigar. Coco and herb edged fruit sits in the glass and opens with air. Opening with dark chocolate and cherry nuance, the peaty background comes of age and styles the graceful personality of this vineyard.
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Nose: Liqueur coffee edge with Black Kat liquorice, tobacco leaf, lifted spicey leather, sweet earthiness and Kalamata skin. Superb clarity and brightness of traditional elements expected in a classic Australian Syrah.
Nose: Floral edge to creamy black and blue berried fruit‐ rugged roast meat, bacon fat, tea bag, peat, liquorice and spice are speckled within the low, earthy elevation of perfume.
Palate: The full penthouse view; a majestic depth of fl...
