Greenock Creek Cornerstone

Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2018

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

"The 90+ year old ‘bush vine’ Grenache is aromatic and shows vibrant strawberry compote and red currants with underling marshmallows and white pepper. The lively structure provides balance to the sweet spiced fruit finish, the layers of red...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2017

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

"He’s done it again. I don’t know of other Grenache fermented dry at 17% wickedness yet retaining this much dignity and disarming generosity amongst all that stern authority and finesse. The fruit is rudely brazen at first: it’s like peeled black russian...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2016

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

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...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2015

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

We should not forget that this very old Grenache patch is part of the original Roennfeldt Vineyard. In spite of Grenache never being Michael's favourite variety, these vines were amongst the first of the bunch to push Grenache as an equal to more...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2014

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Philip White 95+ points!"From the first sniff, this is a complete Grenache, and dead serious. The bouquet is broody and almost sullen upon opening, but slowly the morello cherries poke their drowsy heads up through the pretty, ethereal marshmallow and...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2013

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Philip White 94++ Points! "Typical of the ancient Grenache block on Roennfeldt Road, this vintage is really a very pretty thing to sniff. The topnotes are all cute baby flesh and lollyshop, with wafts of musk, raspberry, banana ester, and even...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2012

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Philip White 94++ Points! "Raspberries, like you expect of ripe Grenache. Really rosy Turkish delight with plenty of confectioner's sugar. Maraschino cocktail cherries...In the long-term, it'll assure the wine lives a delicious decade in your cellar,...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2011

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2008

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Phillip White 95+++ Points!"An extra year of cellaring has unlocked just enough of this wine's mystery to earn it another point. The biggest change is in its whole form, not its myriad aromatic components. It is letting us have just a slightly deeper...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2005

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Wine Advocate 93 points!"The 2005 Grenache "Cornerstone" was sourced from 62-year-old vines and aged in a mix of new and used French oak. It is dark ruby-colored with a nearly exotic perfume of smoke, Asian spices, rhubarb, and black cherry. Sweet and...

[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Cornerstone Grenache 2002

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

Robert Parker 95 PointsThe 2002 Grenache Cornerstone (190 cases) exhibits a fabulous perfume of kirsch liqueur and raspberries, a corpulent, fleshy attack and mid-palate, surprising structure and definition, and that fabulous richness and ripeness that...