Lost Buoy McLaren Vale Grenache 2025
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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McLaren Vale is leading the Aussie Grenache pack, and it’s easy to see why. Bright crimson red. High aromatics on show led by black pepper, juniper, cranberry, rosemary, cherry pastille and liquorice over cherry, plum and floral lavender. A long spiciness running the length of the wine is a big attraction with this wine, together with a depth of fruit, red liquorice, cherry pastille and darker earthy notes all brought together by firm fine tannins. Super smart, super concentrated and nicely integrated in toasty oak, there is also a freshness of acidity that good Grenache always seems to bring to the glass. Top stuff.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
