Grenache

Frankland River

Grenache

The pretty much perfect season in Frankland River has resulted in some of the best grenache yet released from this region. This is certainly a case in point. Yes, it’s soft and supple with plush red fruits and florals, but there is a more serious structure and purpose through the middle palate. Radiates brightness from its deep crimson red hues...

Great Southern

Grenache

The boys have gone to the Great Southern to source this grenache. It’s medium bodied in line with contemporary thinking for this variety. Soft supple fruit with a merging of bright red fruits and a slight turned earthy character. Bright and vibrant palate with lots of red fruit following through to a pleasingly long finish.

Swan Valley

Grenache

This a notch up, but not by much, on the very good ’22 vintage. Aromas display those same rose petal and raspberry nuances with a little fresh tuned earthiness. But the palate has a silky-smooth viscosity supported by supple fine tannins and a light touch of oak.

Swan Valley

Grenache

A lighter and elegant medium bodied grenache made in the contemporary style that brings brightness and vibrancy. Perfumed notes of rose petal and raspberry with other red fruits emerging. Smoothly integrated medium bodied palate with so much bright red fruits and a deep layer of dark plum fruit beneath.

Frankland River

Grenache

Cherubino pushes boundaries with this marvellous grenache. It’s made in a clay cement ovoid tank which is a giant egg that creates a sort of vortex of continual movement. The outcome is stunning. There’s pristine purity and vibrancy here as the grenache elevates to new levels of seductiveness. You just keep going back for more. Terrific stuff.

South Australia

Grenache

Has become one of the favourites from the entire collection, not least because it is such brilliant value for money. Perfumes of cherry and creamy plummy roasted almond emerge immediately. The medium bodied palate is so elegant and delightfully refined. Seamless integration of French and American oak, with the small amount of new oak an important part. A most complete...

South Australia

Grenache

A beautiful light to medium bodied grenache sourced from the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale. Exotic aromas of rose petal, musk stick and even a lift of confectionary Turkish Delight evident. The palate is sublime. It’s medium bodied with texture and fine chalky tannins and acidity providing definition and direction. A subtle cracked seashell character adds the final flourish. Love...

Swan Valley

Grenache

Oh, I do love this wine, which provides such compelling evidence of why Swan Valley grenache should rank with anything being produced in Australia with this popular variety. It’s picked by hand off selected bunches from selected dry-grown old bush vines before gravity bottled unfined and unfiltered. So, it’s as pure as you get. Wonderful bright raspberry and rose petal...

Frankland River

Grenache

A lot of attention to detail in this rose. It's grenache and mourvedre from Frankland River and was all handpicked before fermentation in and maturation in concrete. It comes off the Swinney Powderbark vineyard. Love the texture and mouth feel in this. It has weight and elegance with a slightly savoury rustic character. It’s the palest of colours – onion...

Frankland River

Grenache

This has fast become one of my favourite grenaches from anywhere in Australia. It comes off the Riversdale vineyard in Frankland, so its pedigree is impeccable. Perfumed red berry aromas with a little rose petal and earthy spicy nuances. Brilliant and bright medium bodied palate delivers succulent fruit with balancing savoury notes. The tannins and light oak treatment combine to...

Geographe

Grenache

A beautiful grenache from the Geographe region. Brings together the perfumed aromatics of this variety with the intensely flavoursome medium bodied palate. A spicy dried herbs infusion complements the sweet fruit. Has such a beautifully textured supple palate, thanks to the quality fruit and the seamless integration of fruit and oak. A beauty.

Frankland River

Grenache

Nice to have this wine back in town after an absence in 2021. The power and concentration of the vineyard and the style is immediately evident. The intensity strikes immediately on the nose, while once the wine starts to roll across your palate you know you in a head zone of great power. It was a warm and concentrated vintage....

Geographe

Grenache

This has been made in the carbonic maceration style with that wonderfully perfumed lifted fruit a feature. It’s medium bodied with a juicy delicious slightly confectionary palate. Spicy bright red raspberry fruit characters with a nice tannin influence. Serve it ever so slightly chilled in summer.

Great Southern

Grenache

Fragrant, highly perfumed and thoroughly delightful opening of this bouquet. The fruit intensity is stunning especially when you consider the medium palate weight. It's such a vibrant and pure expression of the vineyard with a distinct ironstone, grainy character evident. Lifted red rose petal fruits with a trace of raspberry brightness. A distinctly linear wine with a high chalky acidity....

Swan Valley

Grenache

Love this wine, just love it. Comes from that special part of the Swan Valley where some of the oldest vines in the State reside. This is treated gently with bunch selection, hand picking and sorting with wild yeast fermentation before being bottle unfined and unfiltered. So, you get a direct line of site into these old vines. Pretty with...

Great Southern

Grenache

Just love the expression in this exceptional grenache from Frankland River. This really is an exquisite example of this variety from a very good year. Soft and supple with delightfully lifted palate weight. Has a purity, brightness and lightness of touch as the fruit floats effortlessly across the palate. Aromatic and fragrant. I defy you to put this one down,...

Swan Valley

Grenache

A light to medium-bodied grenache brimming with all the bright red fruits you expect with grenache. Highly floral notes with a lift a juby raspberry and rose petal subtleties. A wine for drinking in the shorter term.

Swan Valley

Grenache

Oh my. This medium-bodied combination captures so much about the drinking qualities of these varieties in the Swan Valley. Seductive perfumes on the nose engage immediately. The palate is soft and supple with abundant red fruit over a deeper plumminess. Such an appealing red wine for immediate drinking.

Swan Valley

Grenache

The Swan valley was one of the better regions for this cooler vintage and ideally suited to grenache. Perfumed red fruits of raspberry and rose petal on the nose with an earthy nuance. The palate is soft and warm with a smooth interaction of oak and tannin allowing the fruit to express its virtues perfectly. Lovely smooth mouth feel.

Great Southern

Grenache

Yet another marvellous grenache from Frankland River. The energy and vitality evident immediately is remarkable. It has a lot to do with the cement ovoid egg that allows the lees to continually work through the fruit. It's fragrant with an engaging bouquet of rose petal and raspberry. The palate is pure joy.

Margaret River

Grenache

A wine with distinctive red fruits displaying the virtues and characteristics of the two varieties. The cooler vintage suited the style, which is friendly and appealing. Ideal for current drinking. The medium-bodied palate is supported by light tannins and the oak influence is moderate. So, you can tuck in now.

Great Southern

Grenache

This is a blend of counoise, mataro, shiraz and grenache. It's a balanced and poised blend and offers great drinking over the next few years. It's a wine I prefer to drink when those vibrant bouncy fruit flavours are dominant. The cournoise seems to add a slight peppery crisp acidity to elevate the other varieties. It's an important contribution.

Great Southern

Grenache

This is why we love grenache and why it has become such a popular wine. Aromas of light red fruit confectionery with subtle damp turned earthy influences. It was treated in French oak foudres which has clearly contributed to its expressiveness and textural feel. Slightly chewy finish adds appeal.