SKU: HEIALCGRE24
The Heirloom Vineyards Alcala McLaren Vale Grenache was produced from the best McLaren Vale vineyards whose clones and viticulture embody the very best in cutting edge but old school viticulture and winemaking. The plushness and generosity of the grenache fruit is brilliantly displayed across the palate, but it is also brilliantly offset by plating tannins and an in-and-out running acidity. All of these qualities crash balletically together at the end of the palate, as if a well-practiced circus troupe: cherried fruits, puckering tannins, and piquant acidity.

Grape Variety

Grenache

Region

McLaren Vale

Size

750ml

Wine Style

Red - big, bold, full-bodied

Palate

An effortless structure and a hidden but present acidity. Lolling and lulling - grip without bossy tannins, tannins without hulking heft. Red and bright fruits and berries swirl weightlessly across your palate, and beneath them dance darker fruits. Raspberry, blackberry, blueberry. A mirror and a window; savoury and yet fruit-sweet. Long and lingering but at all times fresh and uplifting.

Vintage

2024

Food Pairing

Stew some squid slowly with fennel and smoked pimenton powder and some white beans and some chorizo slices.

”Fermented with 42% whole bunches; aged for eight months in 75% mainly neutral oak, with a small portion of first, second and third-use French oak; 25% in tank. The whole bunch plays a key role here, lifting and spicing, giving shape and structure to the expressive fruit. Bing cherries, redcurrant gelée, wild raspberries, white pepper, sour red snakes, white pepper, cinnamon and sumac, a paprika-spiked earthiness. That bunch-built architecture seems to hold everything weightlessly suspended, both intense and featherlight. Excellent.”
– Marcus Ellis - Australian Wine Companion

Expert Review

Halliday Wine Companion - 96

Estimated delivery 1,722 PTS or $9.90

Heirloom Vineyards

Alcala McLaren Vale Grenache 2024

$480.00
$80.00 per bottle
or
96,000
PTS
16000 PTS per bottle
QTY

6