S.C.PANNELL OLD MCDONALD GRENACHE 2020

It is unusual and rare to find 100% Grenache wines, as most of the time it is blended. Stephen has been making a varietal Grenache from McLaren Vale for the past 22 years and can now provocatively state that he thinks it ages more gracefully than McLaren Vale Shiraz. Grenache will become McLaren Vale’s most recognised wine and our true wine of place.

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Tasting Note

Flavour

Hand-picked on the 29th of February at a Baume of 14.0 with an intensity of tannin and flavour that we have come to expect from this block. Fermented in an open top fermenter with 23% whole cluster, daily pump overs and 14 days on skins before very gentle pressing with no hard pressings used in the final wine. Transferred to a 4300L vat for settling before being racked off less and sent to a 2800L 9-year-old vat and a 3-year-old 1000L vat for maturation. Racked a further two times and bottled without filtration late June 2021

Texture

The tannins are like a skeleton holding the flavour together before sneaking back to the front of the palate and starting all over again. Reminiscent of young Nebbiolo