Sleek, silky and juicy sum up this fabulous Old Vine Grenache from Head Wines.
The fruit is sourced from two sites that are 80 and 163 years old. The former coming off clay soils in Krondorf and the latter on quartz and ironstone from the cooler Springton site.
Scents of purple flowers and red petals before handfuls of raspberries, red cherries and baked raspberry tart get the jump early. Red apple skin muses with woodsy and baking spices that drive long. That hum from the spice seems endless and whispers at you to return for more. This is a wine that flexes some muscle with a little tension and a dash of dark chocolate for good measure but the juicy factor cannot be denied. It's hard to resist and quite simply excellent drinking.
Drink to five years+
94/100
Region: Barossa
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