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[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2016

The grapes for this wine are picked from a single estate vineyard from our Roennfeldt Road property at Marananga near Greenock, and are around 80 years old. The vines crop at 1.5 to 2.0 tonnes per acre and as with all our vineyards the grapes are picked and kept separate to produce a single estate wine. They are picked on phenological ripeness and flavour at a baume range of 14 to 16º. This baume sometimes produces a naturally occurring high alcohol, although this will depend on seasonal conditions.


The grapes are fermented in large, shallow open fermenters, pumped over, chilled and pressed through a basket press. The free run and pressings are kept separate through maturation and blended back together one week before bottling. The wine is racked into barrel to undergo natural MLF. The oak is all French shaved out seasoned second-hand hogsheads, with the better barrels being used for the pressings. The wine is left to mature in barrels for a total of 12 to 15 months and is usually not filtered or fined prior to bottling. Growing on an east facing slope, these ancient bush vines produce a limited amount of small berried bunches, intensely perfumed and with magnificent colour.


Greenock Creek


"My Grenache obsession is no secret: I've been a missionary for the stuff for most of my bibulent life. I've had a lot of Grenache. But I've never had anything like this. Nothing. It's nothing like McLaren Vale Grenache, Adelaide Plains Grenache or Clare Grenache. It's not like much Barossa Grenache either, come to think of it. Or French or Spanish Grenache, or Italian. Overwhelmingly opulent yet slick from go-to-whoa this baby. Mocha dusted on coffee and a deadly well of sinister swirling fruits on the side: a summer prickle on top; all that devilry going on below. Reminds me of Syd Long's beautiful Australian art nouveau masterpiece in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, simply called Pan. It shows the celebrated cloven-hooved flautist entertaining a few naked sylphs who are dancing by a pool. This wine's the depth of that purple pool 'neath the trees. So slick and jujube happy then the dusty tannin blows in and you have to start dancing again so it doesn't get you. What a delightful luxurious game! After a day or two some of the more regionally typical aromas emerge: old harness comes out of the dust. And that flavour whips around the sensories like that jar of brandy you kept the figs and quinces in. So in this its infancy the wine is a sort of genderbender, phasing between a dessert red and a savoury one. Third morning, its fruit is like cranberry and redcurrant. If you're quick enough to get some, it's going to last a long time, this Grenache. Unlike my bottle ... it was the first one empty!'

Phillip White

Farming   Vegan-friendly  


Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Barossa Valley
Variety:
Wine Red - Grenache
Size:
750mL

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$35.00

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