Beresford Old Vines Grenache 2023
- 91
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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The fruit here hails from the estate’s own vineyard with its sixty-year-old Grenache bush vines. Fermentation, in an open fermenter, included 20% whole bunches. Maturation was in large oak puncheons, some up to 800 litres in capacity. A crimson/mauve hue, there is a certain rusticity to this wine, with herbal notes, leather, mushrooms, warm earth and undergrowth characters. In support, cherries, dried herbs and red berries. Those red fruits, and some dry herbs, emerge even more on the palate. This is a juicy style, of medium length, with plenty of grip. Grenache continues to impress. This will drink well for the next five to seven years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
