Grounded Cru Mclaren Vale Grenache 2018
About the wine
Multi-award winning old vine Grenache
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A superbly crafted drop from three separate blocks of 85-year-old McLaren Flat Grenache, dripping with Halliday points and gold show medals.
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Get ready for a brooding, rich mouthful of raspberry, plum and spice, generous from the first taste to the last. It’s at peak drinking now.
- This is your one and only chance to try a premium wine we wouldn’t have got hold of under normal circumstances. Only 1,200 bottles exist, so don’t hang about!
Best before
In suitable cellaring conditions our Grenache will reward medium term cellaring for up to 8 years - drink now to 2028.
Serving advice
Open and let breathe for 30 minutes - ideally decant and let the wine relax....
Food match
This wine has broad appeal to red wine consumers. This is a perfect accompaniment to slow-cooked pork belly on a bed of Asian greens.
Contains sulphites
Always check the label
Australia
McLaren Vale
Grenache
Fruity Red
14.5% ABV
75cl
Vegan
Vegetarian
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Geoff Thompson
The first winemaker in his family, Geoff got to grips with grapes in 2002 and left a promising career in photographic science to do something he was passionate about. Hard work and enviable talent saw him work his way up the wine-stained ladder to Senior Winemaker at the Tahbilk Group in Victoria, in charge of more than a million cases a year!
Building a reputation as a master blender, Geoff won a ton of gold medals and trophies for his wines - and developed an itch to branch out on his own, back in his McLaren Vale homeland. Angels helped him scratch it in 2013 when a phone call in a car park kicked off his dream to create wines under his own label for them!
With his winemaking wizardry and access to some of the best grapes in the country, Geoff has been wowing Angels with his sensational South Australian wines ever since. He’s caught the eye of the critics too. In 2022, his winery was awarded 4.5 stars in the iconic Halliday wine companion.
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