Wait Single Vineyard Grenache 2024

Wait Single Vineyard Grenache 2024Discover one of the best McLaren Vale Grenache wines. Savoury, structured and made for moments to remember. Aphelion began with Grenache. Our focus is Grenache. Our future is Grenache. Our original 2014 "Grenache project" has evolved. Each vintage we coax from the earth three exceptional McLaren Vale Single Vineyard Grenache wines. Made the same way each year using 100% whole bunches, each highlights the diversity and beauty of Grenache and the many

Discover one of the best McLaren Vale Grenache wines. Savoury, structured and made for  moments to remember. 

Aphelion began with Grenache. Our focus is Grenache. Our future is Grenache.

Our original 2014 "Grenache project" has evolved. 

Each vintage we coax from the earth three exceptional McLaren Vale Single Vineyard Grenache wines. 

Made the same way each year using 100% whole bunches, each highlights the diversity and beauty of Grenache and the many terroirs of McLaren Vale. 

Guided by the deft and gentle hands of Rob Mack they sing of their purity and place.

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"Gorgeous wine...Can’t fault this. It’s exquisite." - Campbell Mattison for The Wine Front

"(F)ruit is impeccably ripe, and the site reflection bell clear. Excellent." - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

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The Wait Single Vineyard Grenache 2023 is sourced from the Top Bush block owned by the Wait family in the northeast corner of the Blewitt Springs area of McLaren Vale.

Planted in the mid 1940’s, this block is dry grown and provides small berries with intense flavour and prominent tannin. 

The most structural and savoury wine in the range, brooding in character with earth and briary characters dominating the palate.

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Unfiltered  |  Unfined  |  Vegan

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Production: 800 bottles produced under Diam Origine.

ABV: 13.2%

Accolades:

96 points Erin Larkin for Robert Parker Wine Advocate

96 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

95 points Gold medal - McLaren Vale Wine Show 2025

95 points Campbell Mattison for The Wine Front

"Gorgeous wine. Plenty up its sleeve but ready to be consumed now too, should you wish. I wished. Herbs, undergrowth, boysenberry, red and black cherry, a graphite note, a gentle meatiness. This is juicy, fine, smoky and impeccably well structured all at once. Tannin is like a tickle in the dark; you’re not sure where it came from but you’re sure aware of its presence. Can’t fault this. It’s exquisite." - Campbell Mattison for The Wine Front

"It’s brooding in a way, but also refined. Amaro herbs, preserved sour cherry, white pepper, a bastourma-like cured meat note, lingonberry, goji, dusky rose and a crackle of spice. This was picked on the earlier side, based on the final alcohol, giving a pleasing verve and linearity, though the fruit is impeccably ripe, and the site reflection bell clear. Excellent." - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

"(N)otes of Campari and blood orange, raspberry seed and poached rhubarb. On the palate, this wine really shines, and it shows the power and succulence of the 2024 season. This has surprisingly low alcohol, but it works really well—the fruit and tannins feel ripe, despite this. It is almost an entire degree lower in alcohol than usual." - Erin Larkin for Robert Parker

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