Bekkers McLaren Vale Grenache 2024
- 94
- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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This was a vintage with some challenges, being quite cool and wet with a mild summer before a little burst of heat at the end succeeded in ripening the fruit and just firming the tannins to give the wine support and structure. Highly perfumed aromas of cherry and raspberry, with a faint hint of white pepper. Quite light in color, but there’s still good richness in the fruit. It has a certain succulence and richness with sweet cherry and plummy characters emerging. The fruit was basket-pressed, to aged oak, five hundred liter puncheons, and a small amount was matured in a concrete tank. Marked by fine tannins, integrated subtle oak, and delicious sweet fruit.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
