Winemaker Notes
Notes of ripe strawberry, cranberry, and pencil shavings, with soft tannins and vibrant acidity.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Small batch, natural-leaning Grenache at its best, this opens with an enticing perfume of wild raspberries and strawberries and orange peel, with oodles of dried floral and spice notes evoking something like cocktail bitters. The tannins are powerful, raspy even, but the succulent, spice-flecked fruit holds its own. Serious yet also smashable, as the Aussies might say. Editors’ Choice
Grenache thrives in any warm, Mediterranean climate where ample sunlight allows its clusters to achieve full phenolic ripeness. While Grenache's birthplace is Spain (there called Garnacha), today it is more recognized as the key player in the red blends of the Southern Rhône, namely Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Côtes du Rhône and its villages. Somm Secret—The Italian island of Sardinia produces bold, rustic, single varietal Grenache (there called Cannonau). California, Washington and Australia have achieved found success with Grenache, both flying solo and in blends.
The Barossa Zone encompasses the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley. Some of the oldest vines in Australia can be found here.
Barossa Valley of course is the most important and famous wine growing region in all of Australia where 140+ year-old, dry-farmed Shiraz vines still produce inky, purple and dense juice for some of Australia's best wines.
In the cooler, wetter Eden Valley sub-region, the Hill of Grace vineyard is home to famous Shiraz vines from the 1800s but the region produces also some of Australia’s very best and age-worthy Rieslings.