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96
/ 100
Stuart Knox -
94
/ 100
Gary Walsh -
92
/ 100
Ned Goodwin MW
Red
Classification
Grenache Blend
Variety
2022
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
South Australia, McLaren Vale
Region
14.0%
Alcohol %
5-10 Years
Cellaring
Scores
96 / 100"Dense purple in the glass. Blueberry, white pepper, dark slate and violets on the nose. Enters the palate with an explosion of purple fruits and exotic spices: musk, violets, cola, and anise all meld with aplomb and class whilst sandy tannins bring tension and focus to the flow. Great length and precision. It’s an impressive wine in its youth and will no doubt open further in time."
- Stuart Knox
94 / 100
"An exotic thing, with plenty of pepper and five spice, blue and black fruit, baked raspberry pie, iodine, with a dried flower perfume. It’s medium-bodied, quite juicy in the blue and black fruit department, blackcurrant jubes, almost, a grainy grip to tannin, spicy and peppery, with rusty tannin and crisp cranberry acid crunch on a finish of good length. Plenty of energy here, with some sappy green notes, which add rather than detract. It’s quite intense as at now, but should improve with a little bottle age. Very good."
- Gary Walsh
92 / 100
"The sort of compellingly energetic wine that I could drink every night. The jubey flirt of grenache's orange pastille and kirsch melds with bergamot, violet and pulpy blue fruits care of the shiraz. A waft of spice and a raft of gritty tannins, left unmanicured for the better, shifting to the side of savoury over sweet. Imminent appeal."
- Ned Goodwin MW
Tasting Notes
A Grenache Shiraz blend comprising 60% Marmont Vineyard Grenache, 40% Springs Hill Vineyard Shiraz. A combination of varieties that is quintessentially McLaren Vale, an homage to past employers who have proudly championed blends of Grenache and Shiraz for decades.
Darker expression from the 2022 vintage with green and black pepper/Chinese spice and a juicy raspberry core from the Grenache. There’s a touch of road tar and anise leading to darker primary fruit aromas. Quite a savoury fruit profile through the palate with a lovely chisel of medium weight tannins. A tighter version of the Grenache Shiraz highlighting the cooler growing season. Most importantly it is absolutely delicious to drink and should continue evolving over the next few years in bottle.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity