Purple Hands Wines Old Vine Barossa Valley Grenache 2025
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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Craig Stansborough would be well known to many local wine lovers for the endless array of superb Barossa wines he has crafted, working at Grant Burge. This is a project he operates with friends and the results, to date, have been more than exciting. The fruit here was sourced from a trio of vineyards located in the Lyndoch and Moppa sub-regions. 25% whole bunches were included in the ferment. Maturation was for nine months. Pale purple in colour, the nose exhibits notes of milk chocolate, aniseed, raspberries, dried herbs and florals. There is a silky texture and the wine is finely balanced with bright acidity and very fine tannins. A wine of excellent length, it is delicious drinking now and will continue to be for at least the next six to ten years. Love it.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
