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Alkina Estate Grenache 2024
DOZEN: $615.60 or $51.30 each
These new Alkina ‘Estate’ releases are ultra exciting. You would have heard all the raves about this place over the past few years but, like me, maybe, baulked at the pricing. Here we get an insight to the Alkina magic at a more palatable level. These wines had me rushing to the keyboard. Personally, I’m in.
This is grown organically, using biodynamic principles. 200-ish dozen were made. Wine Front subscribers should take up the whole production and clear them out. It was fermented and matured in concrete only.
You don’t rock up to these modern grenache wines with an empty mind, or with an empty heart. You rock up with air sucked into your lungs, and this air is full of hope. Most times, the air is sucked straight out. But here the hope turned straight into joy, and from there we’re away, full like a balloon. Crushed rocks, berried fruits, cooling herbs, twigs, macerated flowers. This is an autumn solstice of a wine, summer and winter placed at a tension point. It’s textural. It has the presence of mind to run grip through its gears. It’s a motivated self-started of a wine, start to finish; sans artifice. You could use the word verity and be bang on. It’s 55 bucks, on the nose, for the win. CAMPBELL MATTINSON