2023 S.C.PANNELL Sunrise 100 Grenache

The palate is focused and refined with incredible length and tension. Densely flavoured with intense forest berries and pomegranate, wound around savoury, earthy, ferruginous tannins, and a lingering woody earl grey tea persistence to close.

Decant or enjoy as it unfurls over a couple of days. Try with osso bucco, sausage and lentil stew, or eggplant
parmigiana.

This wine is made with the intention to age, and should do so for more than thirty years in a cool cellar.

The second release from this home vineyard in Blewitt Springs. The 100 here references 100 years of vintages from these vines (omitting the fledgling unproductive years). All destemmed fruit, old oak, frugal quantities. This sits in a moodier, brooding zone – refined and unadorned, though – with dark red fruits corded into a structure of assertive natural tannin and energetic acidity. Air reveals dried cranberry and cherry, raspberry leaf tea, subdued souk spices, tobacco leaf, rusted iron, dried rose, bergamot, a brooding malty note, like dark rye bread. It’s a wine of many layers, so closely serried that they are initially easy to miss. That compression, the complex weave of tannin, the vibrant drive of acid all mark this as a wine that will age spectacularly.

- 98 points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion.

Published 31 July 2026