The Vintage Journal - Barossa Guide 2022

Grenache and Blends

Cirillo Estate Maya Grenache 2010

G 97

Medium-deep crimson. Intense musky plum, chinotto, dark chocolate aromas with shellac/ tobacco leaf notes. Well concentrated musky plum, blackberry pastille, stone fruits, fine loose-knit chalky textures, lovely mid-palate viscosity and fresh long acidity. Finishes chalky firm and long. Lovely mid-palate richness, density and volume. Now–2030+ Medium crimson. Intense musky plum, panforte, strawberry glacé aromas. Smooth ripe and expressive with plentiful pure strawberry, musky plum, dried apricot fruits, fine slinky textures, superb mid- palate viscosity and a linear thread of aniseed. Finishes dry and fruity with a kick of alcohol and acidity. A beautiful grenache at the pointy end of ripeness. Generous, ripe, fresh and expressive. I can smell the heat and dust. From the highest-altitude grenache plantings in South Australia. Exceptional drinking but best to enjoy the primary fruit expression. Now–2028 Arila Sand Garden Grenache 2019 G 96 Love over Gold Grenache 2019 G 97 Medium-deep crimson. Intense lifted musky plum, raspberry aromas with hints of panforte/ dark chocolate and sage. Richly flavoured palate with deepset musky plum, raspberry, red liquorice flavours, lovely mid- palate volume, fine persistent chalky textures and underlying savoury notes, Finishes firm and minerally crisp with plentiful sweet fruit

notes. Now–2028 Arila Sand Garden Grenache 2019

G 96

Medium-deep crimson. Intense lifted musky plum, raspberry aromas with hints of panforte/ dark chocolate and sage. Richly concentrated palate with deepset musky plum, raspberry, red liquorice flavours, lovely mid-palate volume, fine persistent chalky textures and underlying savoury notes, Finishes firm and minerally crisp with plentiful sweet fruit notes. Quite Penfoldsian in style. Now–2028

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