Otro Vino Grenache 2025
- 92
- $36
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Swan Valley fruit, 10% whole bunches, wild ferment, carbonic maceration, matured on lees in large format seasoned French oak. Good to see quality Swan Valley Grenache being recognised, and with ripeness on its side (14.5%ABV) it captures the whole ripe, cherry and plum approach of the grape beautifully. It’s a sunny, fresh, aromatic young Grenache showing its best right now. Spice, juniper, wild herbs and rosemary with a pinch of black pepper light up the red fruits on the bouquet. The palate gives way to a long running thread of delicious cherry spiced up with red liquorice, musk confection, chocolate, woody spices and a peppery prettiness. Good tannic grip to close.
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.
