EN PRIMEUR
This product is currently en primeur status. Effectively, it's a pre-order with payment
required now and stock will be delivered up to 18 months later.
For more detailed arrival times please contact the store.
Vanguardist Oeno Grenache 2024
DOZEN: $486.00 or $40.50 each
Off the Rende vineyard in Blewitt Springs, leased and exclusively managed by Michael Corbett; 60% whole bunch with maturation in a concrete sphere and seasoned puncheons. Trademark Vanguardist; this is savoury, subtle, structured, tense yet tensile. Dried cranberry and redcurrant, cherry, pressed wildflowers, warm russet earth, dried and ground orange peel, caraway and white pepper, a crunch of autumn leaves. As said, it's savoury, but it has plenty of upfront charm, too. I've perhaps worn this analogy out, but the nebbiolo echoes are resounding, if it is also decidedly, unquestionably varietal. Excellent, and great value. (95+) MARCUS ELLIS
...this is 60% whole bunch, old puncheons and a 1500L concrete sphere. Rende vineyard, Blewitt Springs. 50+ year old vines.
Cherry, peanuts, mint and dried flowers, spice. It’s medium-bodied, an earthy and savoury character, a little meaty too, with fine-grained dusty tannin grip, a pomegranate tang in with red berries, nutty, spicy and peppery on a finish of excellent length. It’s lighter and breezier than the V Grenache, and I’d expect that’s kind of the point. Very nice. So stylish. (94) GARY WALSH, The Wine Front