Bekkers Grenache 2024
- 96
- $90
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Multiple picking days, with two parcels from Blewitt Springs and one from Kangarilla in the Onkaparinga Hills. An average of 24% whole bunches, basket-pressed to French oak puncheons and concrete. This is a wine you’ll want to coax from the glass, its delicacy and perfume unfolding with each swirl — perhaps a quiet nod to the cooler vintage. It opens with glacé cherries, lingonberries, and a suggestion of Russian cherry tea, alongside notes of dandelion root and fennel frond. On the palate, it brings an immediate sense of pleasure, as flavour intensifies — excellent concentration and potency of red berries, framed by sandy tannins and a gradual yet purposeful rise in acidity. That fine, etched tannin structure carries fruit and spice long into the finish. There’s every indication this will continue to improve with time in bottle, yet it is already a striking, glamorous wine. Crispy fried quail makes for a winning pairing.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
