"The Smart vineyard is in a slightly more elevated site in Clarendon, in the Adelaide Hills, that consistently delivers grenache with tightly pulled focus. This is the coiled and wound one, the stand-offish and reserved one. It’s grenache with a nebbiolo fetish. Dark raspberry fruit, pippy and fresh. Purity and precision." - Nick Ryan
"An excellent vintage, low yielding, cool and attenuated. Scents of spiced Damson plums, wood, berries, graphite and almond husks, with iron notes and tannins in the long, streamlined finish. From a wonderful old-vine site in Clarendon that stretches the possibilities of grenache. Wonderful stuff built for the cellar." - James Suckling
"Really attractive perfume of alpine herbs, almost genepy-like amaro character, sour cherry, faint maraschino cherry, cranberry and rose hip tea. The palate has a good sinewy bite around the more juicy, ripe red and black cherry flavours, some pomegranate juice notes, straight raspberry, more rose hip tea and a dose of Indian fennel candy character too. It’s kind of exotic, in the best sense, but all the elements play superbly together and it feels bright and fresh. Over medium weight, just, with building pucker of Italianate tannin. This is the pick of the 2022s for me, at a pinch, perhaps, but the one I want to drink the most of with its intrigue and complexity on show." - Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
"Stephen proudly states, whenever given the opportunity, that McLaren Vale Grenache ages more gracefully than Shiraz. Grenache is well on its way to becoming McLaren Vale’s most recognised wine, and our true wine of place.
Vegan-friendly
Sustainably-made
