Gullyview Estate The Fruitful Grenache 2025

All the glory of exquisite fluro red berries, cranberries, Morello cherries and raspberry compote. Rose petals and sandalwood. The wine is slinky and with some notes of apple and raspberry cordial. Tannins are quite soft and the wine trickles over the palate providing less ripeness and more curves and caress than expected. Those powdery tannins are impressive, this is a very good showcase of forward thinking modern Clare Valley Grenache. I think this also has a few years ahead of it too. Drink with Korean fried chicken, the spicy kind.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

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.

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