MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Grenache 2022

This vintage sees a step up in collected wild floral tones. Hyacinths, freesia and lilac. Alongside floats punnets of raspberries, apple and strawberry sorbet and Ikea lingonberry syrup (pick some up when you get your meatballs). The palate is wired like a spring, flirty red fruit shows its more demure side with sappy and succulent tannins taking the lead with a smoke show of mediterranean souk spices. Sumac, sweet paprika and cumin. There is a thirst quenching element to the wine, refreshing but chewy to boot. Uncommon in its fluorescent core of red fruit but intricate in its woven textural palate. Designed for drinking young and with all the stuffing to be capable of cellaring and developing in complexities for another decade. Today I’d drink this with Korean gimbap with extra kimchi sides.

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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