Vintage Cellars Catalogue - 30/06-07/09/2021 (Page 21)

the grape workhorse grape grenache is the perfect everyday they from the barossa valley or the provence serious wines such as châteauneuf-du-pape from the southern rhône or australia's rich concentrated interpretations of the style such innate versatility allows it to oscillate between these potent wines to be the perfect everyday spaghetti bolognaise oak tannins which can dry out its generous joy of grenache is its opulent fruit flavours and understated tannin profile red fruited grenache with the more earthy immediate appeal although the best are more of winegrowers picking their grenache grapes earlier to preserve the fresh raspberry and redcurrant flavours and good natural acidity red can be crafted with a degree of "pinosity" drinkable as beaujolais hardys and mildara made these wines from ports" of the same era made by hardys reynella and yalumba - they are world class regions grew most of our grenache - mclaren recently these grapes went to anonymous australia moved away from these generic terms to varietal labelling that grenache appeared on often as a single variety puncheons or better still the upright foudre aeration that helps stabilise and integrate grenache's flavours and skin-derived tannins grenache is easily overwhelmed by excessive best in spain's warmer regions like la mancha valencia and catalunya busby vathor farmers grenache hardy heart dona greach ulithorne dona gsm de bortoli grenache wizardry grenache james busby wirra wirra farmer's heart grenache two hands brave faces gsm ox hardy grenache mclaren vale $17 single price bodied and great with food price dark fruit flavours of blackberry and blueberry meld wonderfully with bright red cherry beautifully layered with polished sandy tannins and succulent red fruits for easy drinking wine of lifted $27 single price raspberry and ripe red cherry aromas are followed by $35 single price cherries very much complement soft abundant chalky tannins and spice vintagecellars.com.au