Heirloom Vineyards Alcala McLaren Vale Grenache 2024 x 6
Top Rated 2023 The Halliday Wine Companion Awards
95 Points
Hand-picked fruit, whole-bunch fermented, basket pressed and matured in French oak. McLaren Vale grenache is never short on flavour, but here it shines with complexity and finesse. Marries the grape's floral beauty with mulberry, cherry cola, red licorice and juniper. At once both bright and contemplative, it has time on its hands, aided by subtle tannins and well-managed oak.
Heirloom Vineyards Alcala McLaren Vale Grenache
Dark purple-red with an opaque rim edge and a grainy amaranthine core. Violet flowers and blackberries crushed in the hand; bath salts, talc stone, minerals; lifted rose petal, pink peppercorns and Turkish confectionery. The primary fruit aromatics are at the fore; the secondary oak bouquet very much in the small timpany section of the orchestra. Rich and ripe with a saving, savoury periphery: sour plums, roasted beetroot, compote dark berries. The berried lushness of the first sip is soon balanced effortlessly before more linear and granular, dry and minerally textures and flavours take over. Grenache here is on a more mature and adult display, although the cheeky fruitiness and vibrant berries that are so lovingly typical of this red variety are still present, perhaps seen rather than heard.
About `Heirloom Vineyards`
Heirloom Vineyards was conceived in vintage 2000, when a young winemaking student caught the eye o a silly old wine judge. A love story ensued inspired by two vows: To preserve the best of tradition, the old world of wine and our unique old vineyards, and to champion the best clones of each variety, planted in the most appropriate sites, embracing the principles of organic farming. Cheers the Brooks Family. Winemakers Ms Rosie Signer BS (Viticulture/Enology) Washington State USA and Ms E E G Brooks Bsc (Oenology) Adelaide AUS.
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