SKU: SCPLBRGRE22
Stephen’s interest in grenache stretches back to the mid nineties. Upon arriving in McLaren Vale, a preference for making medium bodied wine led Stephen to grenache and the love affair began. Given the region’s warm Mediterranean-climate and proximity to the ocean grenache is ideally suited to McLaren Vale and perfectly at home with the food and lifestyle. Grenache is well on its way to becoming McLaren Vale’s most recognised wine and their true wine of place. Little Branch Vineyard, Blewitt Springs, 30 year old unirrigated trellised vines grown on 50 million year old soils comprised of Maslin Beach Sands flecked with iron stone at 140m above sea level.

Grape Variety

Grenache

Region

McLaren Vale

Size

750ml

Wine Style

Red - juicy, smooth, medium-bodied

Palate

Spice from the start: Cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, cassia then spun sugar, toffee apple, musk and red fruits now rose oil, leaf litter, cedar, and red brick; aromas that sway and swirl. Bright red fruits dominate the palate before a zephyr of spice and a finish laced with musk. Suave, sophisticated and intellectual, before stealing your wallet, and yet, a yearning for more. Stealthy tannin hidden by complex flavours. The texture has a pink hue and slips past the front palate with barely a ripple before building quickly to the back and travelling on. Flavours and textures that stay with you long past the first sip.

Dietary Notes

Vegan

Vintage

2022

Food Pairing

The protein is easy, but this match is all about the sauce. Try Grilled Rib Eye or a mushroom and Haloumi stack with Red Wine Sauce from Meatsmith by Andrew McConnell and Troy Wheeler.

”From the new estate vineyard for Pannell, an old but recently viticulturally retooled site in Blewitt Springs. It will be fascinating to watch this bottling over the subsequent years as Stephen and co get the full benefit of enhanced farming reflected in bottle, but this is a very bright start. There’s presently a touch more flex and breadth than the other single site grenache bottlings, but still with the tenson of the year. Wild raspberry, redcurrant jelly, bitter red aperitivo, tamarind and sour cherry. Tannins are fine, insistent and sandy, acidity a driving force. This is a stellar debut.”
– Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

Expert Review

Halliday Wine Companion - 97

Awards

Wine -Advocate 97

Real Review - 97

Weekend Australian - 95

James Suckling - 95

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Little Branch Grenache 2022

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