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2008 News

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27th December 2008 - silly story to end the year

champagne cork speed finally revealed!  More >

9th December 2008 - Great Australian Shiraz Challenge

Kilikanoon's consistency rewarded once again with no less than 5 out of the top 50 at the 2008 Great Australian Shiraz Challenge  More >

18th October 2008 - Not all doom and gloom on Wall Street!

The influential Wall Street Journal has just tasted 50 Australian Rieslings. The top wine was Kilikanoon Mort's Block 2007.  More >

16th October 2008 - Conductors like Kilikanoon too!

The Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has the world at his feet. And he likes a drop of Kilikanoon too...  More >

19th September 2008 - Fiber in Red Grapes Helps the Heart Stay Healthy

Another in our series of articles promoting the health benefits of red wine- as if you needed convincing!  More >

19th September 2008 - Scientists use particle accelerator to date wine

Forget about the Big Bang experiments- check if your old Mouton-Rothschild really is...  More >

9th September 2008 - Harvey Steiman meets Kevin Mitchell

Editor at Large of Wine Spectator, Harvey writes authoritatively about Australian wines (and many others..)  More >

3rd September 2008 - 0.5% alcohol wine??

Leading Spanish producer Miguel Torres has launched the country's first ever wine that is almost totally alcohol free.  More >

3rd September 2008 - Another article on the SA Wine of the Year

From the Northern Argus, including an interview with Kevin Mitchell  More >

1st September 2008 - Wine of the year

KILIKANOON WINES 2008 Morts Reserve Watervale Riesling has been named Wine of the Year at South Australia’s most prestigious wine event, the Hyatt Advertiser SA Wine of the Year Awards on Friday night  More >

23rd August 2008 - James Halliday 2009

The much awaited 2009 edition of James Halliday’s definitive annual review of Australian wineries is out. For the second year in a row he has awarded Kilikanoon the much coveted 5 red stars.  More >

9th July 2008 - gold keeps pouring

Two Double Golds at the San Francisco International Competition for the Duke Grenache and Medley GSM  More >

18th June 2008 - Oracle Best Shiraz worldwide again!

Kilikanoon is proud to announce the 2005 Oracle Shiraz has won the trophy for Best Shiraz (worldwide) at the world’s biggest wine competition, the International Wine Challenge.  More >

26th May 2008 - the international gold keeps coming

This time the Concours Mondial du vin in Brussels with gold for both the 2005 Covenant and Oracle...  More >

25th May 2008 - International Wine Challenge Gold for Oracle

The 2008 International Wine Challenge sees Kilikanoon with another gold for Oracle and silver for Covenant.  More >

15th May 2008 - the fourth and maybe best article on Kilikanoon Hermitage

From the influential Marseillaise newspaper Pierre Galaud hazards some words on the subtle differences between the two winemaking approaches and likes what he tastes- again translated by Sam Waks  More >

14th May 2008 - a third article about Kilikanoon Hermitage

The articles keep coming- clearly the French are more than intrigued by our serious Hermitage project. Here it is both original and translated- this time by Sam Waks.  More >

9th May 2008 - Hockey star at Kilikanoon

Article in the Northern Argus about our partnership with Igor Larionov the famous Russian ice hockey star. Triple Overtime wines are made by Kilikanoon for Igor and his partner Mike Davis.  More >

29th April 2008 - Kilikanoon in Qantas First Class Lounge!

Qantas First Class Lounge at Sydney Airport has to be experienced to be believed and they certainly have good taste in wine.. Kilikanoon Block's Rd and Oracle...  More >

29th April 2008 - French article about Kilikanoon Hermitage

Our little adventure in Hermitage, birthplace of Shiraz is making some waves...in French and my translation- Nathan  More >

29th April 2008 - another article on Kilikanoon Hermitage

The French really understand what we are trying to do in Hermitage- just hope we can deliver!  More >

25th April 2008 - Avalanche of bottles kills wine producer

A wine producer was killed in a freak accident at his vineyard when he was crushed by hundreds of bottles.  More >

25th April 2008 - A collection of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti has sold for £250,433 (€312,388/$487,485) - quite possibly a record sum for a single lot of DRC.

A Beijing-based entrepreneur bought the 27-bottle set of various vintages of Romanée-Conti from the Antique Wine Company in a private transaction – not an auction, as has been reported elsewhere  More >

25th April 2008 - Army bunker hosts Hong Kong wine auction

The first fine wine auction in Hong Kong for the last decade will take place in an underground army bunker.  More >

23rd April 2008 - Palandri Wine sells assets

Certain Palandri Wine Group assets have now been sold to the privately owned Global Wine Holdings Pty Ltd.  More >

22nd April 2008 - Bordeaux 2007: Initial prices released

The first few Bordeaux chateaux have released their 2007 prices at nearly the same level as 2006.  More >

21st April 2008 - Jancis Robinson: critics should show more humility

Wine critic Jancis Robinson MW has called wine critics 'parasitical' and has urged them to be more humble and honest.  More >

21st April 2008 - Coppola denied permission to floodlight winery

A Sonoma County zoning board has denied Francis Ford Coppola permission to illuminate his Rosso & Bianco winery with multi-coloured floodlights.  More >

8th April 2008 - Make wine, not war

Lebanese varietals thrive despite a history of turmoil  More >

3rd April 2008 - Bordeaux 2007 the early verdict

The annual Bordeaux circus is underway.  More >

1st April 2008 - more evidence of red wine cancer benefits

I'm going to need a special section for these stories- it seems as if red wine is a wonder drug... so cheap- and no prescription required!  More >


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