AUSTRALIAN GRENACHE

This Grenache, Shiraz, Mouvedre show a classical bouquet of blackberry, raspberry, spice, and cocoa. The palate is full and round with concentrated dark fruits, keen acid and silky tannins. Winemaker Corey Ryan "cut his teeth? at Henschke where he worked for ten years.

Here's a red fruited, perfumed Grenache from Australia with a light touch and a refreshing backbone of acidity adding depth and length to this wine. It is made from certified organic vineyard planted in 1946, dry grown in red loamy clay with ironstone over deep limestone. It has spicy aromas, concentrated flavours of red and a note of wild thyme and white pepper. 

The grapes in this wine were all hand picked, given 65 per cent whole bunch fermentation with some carbonic maceration and all fermented with wild yeasts. It was aged in French barriques then bottled unfined and unfiltered. It has a modest alcohol content of 12.2 % ABV.

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One of Australian wine's great collector's pieces. This smooth, soft and structured red is made from Grenache, Mataro (also known as Mourvedre) and Alicante Bouchet. The grapes were fermented with their skins to gain maximum colour (which says a lot, since Alicante Bouchet is a red fleshed 'teinturier' grape). The result is a super likeable, spicy and flavoursome red with a full body and layers of baking spice, red fruit and dried fruit aromas. 

An icon wine from a maverick trend setting winery.

Rockford Wines' legacy

Rockford Wines is an icon itself and a relatively new one, established in 1971 by Robert O'Callaghan, who has forged a reputation for preserving winemaking tradition and saving many of the world's oldest grape vines from being pulled up in the Australian Government's vine pull schemes of the 1970s and 1980s.

The Rockford vintage shed houses equipment from 50 to 100 years ago, which was discarded by other wineries as modernisation took over.

A blend of grapes more typically found in the Southern Rhone but this wine hails from the Yarra Valley in Victoria. 

The grapes come from the Sexton and Tarraford Vineyards,  and each variety and parcel is fermented separately in small open vats with varying degrees of whole bunch and whole berry fermentation, before being matured in large and small oak for 18 months.

The result is a sumptuous easy drinking wine with plenty of aromatic and flavour interest; sweet cherry and red fruit flavours combining with savoury spice in perfect harmony.

 

Chillable reds are a fabulous new wine trend where softer styles of red winemaking lend themselves ideally to a light chilling. This is a great example from Chaffey Bros in Australia. It is a juicy little blend of Grenache and Mourvedre, made to satisfy red and white wine drinkers alike. This is a pale red wine with bright ruby colour and flavours of bold raspberries and ripe cherries. It's made to drink lightly chilled and works a treat in the hot Australian heat, the country in which it was made. It travels well too? Buy at least a bottle to enjoy on warm days and nights.

Samuel?s Gorge Grenache is an elegant wine, opening with peppery blood orange and cinnamon. Hints of amaro, field strawberries and undergrowth abound before light, delicate tannins flood the mouth with cherry, faint liquorice and soft red fruits, leaving a fresh acid zing and persistent spice-laden finish.

Enjoy with de-boned garfish wrapped in vine leaf and brik pastry with tabbouleh salad.

Age for 10 years plus.

Here?s a deliciously different wine from South Australian brothers Peter and Duncan Lloyd, who were brought up with wine in McLaren Vale, South Australia, which is an experimental hotbed for interesting varieties. Flavours here are all about ripe licorice balanced by soft plummy fruit flavours balanced by firm acidity which adds structure and length to every interestingly quirky sip.

They used five grapes which originate in five different countries to make this interesting new take on Australian red wine. The grapes are Touriga (originally from Portugal), Grenache (French), Negroamaro (Italian), Mourvedre (French/Spanish) and Shiraz (Australia?s stock in trade).

The Fifth Wave is Langmeil?s best old vine Grenache with its powerful flavours of dark cherries, red fruit, vanilla and a touch of green herbs, all combined in a gorgeous approachable red wine with a lingering finish and full body. 

Langmeil is owned by the Lindner family, which has been making wine for six generations in the Barossa Valley.

Adventurous take on the famous French theme of soft, spicy reds from the southern Rhone Valley. This smooth, fruit forward blend of Grenache, Shiraz and Mourv?dre has ripe dark fruit flavours of red fleshed plums, red peach and a hint of cedar, spicy depth on the finish. Medium bodied, bone dry, flavoursome and complex. 

This wine not only looks great, its flavours live up to the part too, thanks to the fact that the Barossa Valley in South Australia is a hot bed of old grapevines and Grenache is one of the most under rated.

This is all about a juicy, supple, medium bodied style and refreshing red fruit flavours. It has great balance, interesting complex flavours and drinks well now but will hold for the next three to four years. 

If you're looking for a red to lightly chill in summer and enjoy with great savoury flavours, such as slow cooked duck, here it is.