Rating 100 points

The wine here is silky and seamless, packed with tannin, flavor and perfume.

"I didn't make it any differently (than the other Grenaches]; I've just let the vineyard sing," SCP

And sing, it does.

This is a wholly complex, complete and persistently long wine.

There are notes of Boscobel rose, sweet licorice, graphite, ironstone and tobacco. What a wine. In terms of character, this combines the texture and complexity of the Smart vineyard and the ethereal spice and delicacy of the Little Branch and then raises the bar of both to a whole new level.

The release of this Sunrise Grenache marks the arrival of an "off- the-leash Pannell"; he has been tirelessly championing premium Grenache from McLaren Vale for years in his own oeuvre of structure, shape, tannin and freshness. It feels as if all of the Grenache that Pannell has made over the decades has been leading up to this point.

It was worth the wait.