Pare Douglas Gully Grenache 23

Pare Douglas Gully Grenache 2023

The Douglas Gully vineyard was planted to Grenache in 1948. The soil is classic Maslin Sand from the Blewitt Springs subregion of McLaren Vale at 145 m in elevation. This vineyard is dry grown on bush vines resulting in concentrated dark brambly fruit with intensity and fine tannins. Our goal with the winemaking is to reflect this unique site and the vintage conditions specific to the year the wine was made. As such, it's handpick early in the morning, using a high proportion (50%) of whole bunch for the wild ferment. The wine is matured for 10 months in large format, neutral puncheons to showcase the vineyard’s unique character. Unfined, unfiltered.

One of two grenaches from Blewitt Springs in the Pare range, this is off 1948 vines and is the more brooding, rumbling along in low gear, with fruits both red and black. That’s not to say it doesn’t have the same refinement of making (about half whole bunch, gentle extraction and élevage in neutral puncheons) or expression, just that the site, also on Maslin Sands, speaks in a different key. Red and black cherry, red plum, spices in the star anise, cassia bark, brown cardamom zone, with distinct bass notes to both flavour and feel." 94 Points - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion