Colour:
2022 Old Vine Grenache is deep purple-red in colour.
Aroma:
It has a super bright, lifted aroma, very captivating. There’s intense floral perfume, ripe raspberry, plum and cherry-ripe, evolving to liquorice, clove spice and glacé fruit.
Palate:
The palate is full and flavoursome. Juicy red and black fruits dominate. Balancing this plush fruit is a fine line of defined natural tannins adding a neat backbone. The varietal fruit purity is commanding, respected by subtle seasoned oak barrel maturation. An outstanding length is a fitting finish to this flavourful, harmonious, and varietally true wine.
Recommended Drinking:
This distinguished Grenache drinks well now but can equally be cellared for 5-10 years.
Following hand picking on April 21st, grapes were destemmed into an open-top fermenter. The must was fermented using native yeast and the fermenting juice was pumped over twice daily for flavour and colour extraction for the 8-day fermentation. The must was then traditionally pressed and filled to barrel. The wine was matured in seasoned American and French oak hogsheads for a year prior to bottling.
The 2022 vintage was excellent. Winter was significantly wetter than average getting the vines off to a brilliant start leading into Spring which was cool with median rainfall. Summer was mild and dry apart from rain on the last day. Autumn remained mild with generally perfect mid-20s weather combined with cool nights ensuring steady even ripening across all varieties. The 2022 yields were good and the quality is great, a classic Barossa vintage displaying rich flavours with fine balance.
Old Vine Grenache is made from a vineyard planted in 1935 as bush vines on the Kalleske farm. The vineyard soil is shallow sand with light clay subsoil and the grapes are entirely dry-grown ensuring intensely flavoured fruit.
