Yelland and Papps Old Vine Single Vineyard Grenache 2024
- 95
- $49
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is a cracking good wine that uses fruit sourced from a 1956 planted vineyard over at Vine Vale. Follows the normal Yelland and Papps treatment in the winery with barrel pressing and then a mixture of new and neutral French oak punctions. It’s all aimed to achieve excellent fruit intensity and balance with the seamless integration of fruit and oak, and fine, silky tannins combining beautifully to present an excellent wine. There’s a slightly gravelly, grainy, textural feel with a fine earthiness complemented with a lifted floral rose petal note. It’s a super wine in the medium term.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
