RockBare McLaren Vale Grenache 2021
- 88
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2027
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Opens with an aromatic splurge of violet, cherry, raspberry and plum. It’s all about the fruit and attractive floral aromatics. Spice – dark and intense – is strong in this one which is a strength of both the wine and the grape variety. So, too, lingering confection and pastille notes. They mix it with blueberry fruits, anise, spearmint and a gamey savouriness that rises mid-palate. Tannins are pliable and willing, working with the fruit to produce a well-rounded mouthfeel. Not as sustained on the finish as it might be, but nevertheless fab drinking in the medium term.
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.
