2015 Clarendon Hills Grenache Blewitt Springs Vineyard Old Vines
AUSTRALIA / SOUTH AUSTRALIA / MCLAREN VALE
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Wine Advocate | Rating: 96
The 2015 Blewitt Springs Grenache is particularly successful, offering exquisite perfumes of bay leaf and thyme sprinkled over raspberries and blueberries. Full-bodied and concentrated, it's rich and velvety on the palate but also tannic, demanding additional cellaring time. Try it after 2023.
Owner Roman Bratasiuk shows a devotion to the simple tenets that yield some of the best Shiraz fruit grown in Australia. From the flagship Astralis vineyard, he hand-harvests fruit from over 75-year-old dry-farmed vines and allows the indigenous yeasts to work their magic. The resultant wine is unctuous and viscous, yet harmonized, and expresses those elements which define the essence of great Shiraz - black fruit, bramble, super concentrated cassis and spice, undercurrents of tobacco, coffee and licorice root.
Clarendon Hills also produces wonderful Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Semillon.
Clarendon Hills also produces wonderful Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Semillon.
Collector Data For This Wine
- Average collector rating: 93
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