Kilikanoon Walton 1946 Grenache 2022
- 96
- $100
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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This Grenache, from vines planted in 1946 on the hills of Leasingham, remains one of my favourite examples of this variety. It’s been made with very light winemaking influence and is really designed to capture both that sense of place and variety from this vineyard. Medium-bodied, with floral, subtle damp turned earth characters and a hint of ironstone gravel. A little leafy lift adds further to the nose, and that slightly dry savoury finish provides further appeal. An excellent wine for current drinking, but with cellaring potential, as you might expect.
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.
