High value old vine grenache from an esteemed 'new guard' producer in McLaren Vale.
Starts with a light touch and raspberry fruit but gradually firms up as the fruit tightens, darkens, and gets progressively more serious. A very good halfway house for the variety.
"Blewitt Springs, Seaview and Whites Valley, with all vines north of 70 years; some bunch, some full carbonic, all native ferments, then nine months in seasoned oak. This was picked on the early-ish side, yet the swell of fruit flavour is effusive. And in the best sense. It's a wine that lures you in, seductive with its sultry florals and dark red and black fruits. It's savoury, too, detailed with fine Medina spices and dried Mediterranean herbs. This is perhaps the finest grenache I have tasted from this address, the three district parcels making up an effortlessly complex whole. Superb." 96pts | Halliday Wine Companion
"Grenache grown on 70-year-old bush vines. Beautiful grenache. Bright berried fruits, savoury inputs, a firm (and substantial) framework of tannin and the length to match. Everything is in excellent order here. Redcurrant, earth, flings of aromatic herbs, undergrowth and saltbush. It's a juicy wine, with depth, with authority" 94pts | Campbell Mattinson | WineFront
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