SKU: MOCMVGRE24
A celebration of the dogged stubbornness of pioneering McLaren Vale families, who persisted with their plots of grenache, when others implored them to turn their land to other pursuits. From very old bush vines each vineyard eighty years plus, the team at Ministry of Clouds make a contemporary grenache with fragrance, succulence and fine boned structure. Viva la Grenache!

Grape Variety

Grenache

Region

McLaren Vale

Size

750ml

Wine Style

Red - juicy, smooth, medium-bodied

Palate

Showing old vine intensity without heaviness, fragrant cranberry and wild cherry fruit lift, violets, earth, and garrigue herbs: the palate is pure with calming depth and intensity, but kept necessarily fresh by grainy tannins and a bright line of natural acid.

Vintage

2024

Food Pairing

Smoked veal sausages

Green Tier

This product is from an eco-producer - purchases of this product count towards Green Tier eligibility

”From three growers in Blewitt Springs (58%) and the oldest vines on the Smart Vineyard in Clarendon (42%); some parcels destemmed, the others all whole bunch, with up to five weeks on skins; maturation in old French oak and concrete eggs for seven months. This is so composed and poised at this early stage – fragrant, refined yet expressive. Dried cranberry, rose, bergamot, carraway, raspberry leaf tea and pomegranate, with savoury dried herbs, warm spice and a ferrous note complexing. The balance between fruit sweetness and tannic drive is pitched keenly. It’s the very picture of modern Vale grenache.”
– Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

Estimated delivery 1,722 PTS or $9.90

Ministry of Clouds

Grenache 2024

$300.00
$50.00 per bottle
or
60,000
PTS
10000 PTS per bottle
QTY

6