The Vintage Journal Barossa Guide 2026

Hentley Farm The Stray Grenache, Shiraz, Zinfandel 2024

G 92

Bright crimson. Brings a sense of polish and style with spiced cherry- berry scent, light confection notes of blackcurrant pastille, boiled lolly and chocolate. Crunchy bright to start, with red fruits, blackberries, chocolate to the fore, before building in depth with layers of leaf, earth and toasty oak. Now–2031 Kalleske Wines Clarry’s GSM Grenache, Shiraz, Mataro 2025 G 92 Purple-crimson. Warm, inviting aromas of blackberry, plum, chocolate, sweet blackcurrant pastille, musk, wood spice and oak. Takes on a bright, fresh, easy-going drinkability full of ripe fruits and dark spices aided by free-flowing juicy tannins. Builds weight through the finish and offers mighty good drinking now. Now–2030 Laughing Jack Wines Jack’s GSM Grenache 70%, Shiraz 20%, Mourvèdre 10% 2024 G 92 Bright purple-crimson. Fresh and full of vitality with scents of blueberries, cherry, anise, spice and chocolate. Builds in an attractive textural flow across the palate in ripe, sweet fruits, cherry, plum, earth, cocoa and spice nicely measured in fine tannins and with integrated vanillin French oak a feature. Medium-bodied with good drinking now and into the immediate future. Now–2031 Orlando Cellar 13 Grenache 2025 G 92 A super ripe grenache alight in red and blue fruits, gentle wild herbs, fennel seed and earth notes and lit up in rose florals, hints of musk. Florals are indeed a very attractive feature of the wine, together with a fresh youthful acidity and easy-going tannins. Ready to go. Now–2029 Otherness Un message jeté à la mer Mourvèdre Grenache 2025 G 92 Medium crimson. Raspberry, red cherry, soy, hint brambly aromas. Fresh minerally palate with bittersweet raspberry, cherry, red liquorice and chinotto flavours. Fine loose-knit tannins and underlying crisp acidity. Finishes chalky with attractive fruit sweetness. Now–2032

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