Hickinbotham Vineyard Old Vines Grenache
Clarendon Hills
Clarendon, South Australia
100% Old Vines Grenache
Situated just across the road from the Clarendon Old Vines Grenache Vineyard but on much harder ground facing north. The wine here is quite austere in its youth developing slowly but positively. Always shows lots of spice on the nose, marzipan also, and a palate which is long and tightly focused with abundant white pepper and Asian spices in the aftertaste. This wine needs cellaring to unravel all of its mysteries.
93, Wine Spectator
Firm. Calls to mind a huge bowl of red fruit, with raspberry, wild strawberry and guava flavors accompanied by heady aromatics of white pepper and sweet spices. Drink now through 2016.
92, Robert Parker
From a vineyard planted in 1920, the dark ruby/purple-tinged 2004 Grenache Hickinbotham reveals abundant quantities of sweet black raspberries, blackberries, loamy soil, licorice, and spice. This evolved, forward, plump, and lush as well as powerful cuvee can also be enjoyed over the next 7-8 years.
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Sale prices valid from March 2 through March 31, 2009. Subject to availability. Sale and regular prices can change without further notice.
