Hickinbotham Single Vineyard Grenache 2024

Hickinbotham Single Vineyard Grenache 2024Hickinbotham Single Site 2024 is a benchmark Grenache wine from one of the best McLaren Vale Grenache vineyards vibrant, savoury, elegant and cellar worthy. 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

Hickinbotham Single Site 2024 is a benchmark Grenache wine from one of the best McLaren Vale Grenache vineyards - vibrant, savoury, elegant and cellar-worthy.

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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Sourced from Blocks 111-113 at the highest elevation of the Hickinbotham vineyard owned by Yangarra in Clarendon, close to the Adelaide Hills.

A southerly aspect provides respite from the hot afternoon sun during ripening ensuring that this fruit is the last Grenache harvested. This produces a very well developed flavour profile.

The highest altitude wine in the range with vibrancy and crisp acid drive, red fruits mingle with herbal briar characters to create a wine of freshness and depth.

 Lifted aromatics of cranberry, bramble, and cherry. Herbal characters abound on the palate, with rosehip, just-ripe strawberry, and blood orange flavours. A rasp of light tannin provides good length and a savoury finish.

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Halliday Wine Companion placed our Hickinbotham Single Site Grenache 2024 as one of their Best Australian Grenache's on their Ultimate Aussie Festive Wine List. Marcus Ellis also gave our wine 97 points and a Special Value rosette. Noice.

Campbell Mattinson of The Wine Front said of the Hickinbotham 2024:

"I lost an hour or so today because I was sitting and marvelling at this wine and wondering how the hell I could do it justice in words. Some wines are better than the person writing about them. This wine pulls out the spice box and throws it at you, the fortunate thing being that the box wasn’t full and so what hits you seems reasonable. There are red licorice notes, red and black cherry, sandalwood, potpourri, an assortment of dry, roasted spices, a musky-vanillin-strawberry-shake note, and a peppercorn aspect. The way the flavours here volley through the palate, and the way it feels dry in the face of its own ripeness, and the way it then pulls a film of firm tannin right back through the wine – is all both magnificent and elite."

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Unfiltered  |  Unfined  |  Vegan

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Production: 1,300 bottles produced under Diam Origine.

ABV: 14.1%

Accolades:

97 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion & Special Value rosette

96 points Campbell Mattinson for The Wine Front

95 points Huon Hooke for The Real Review 

95 points David Sly for Decanter

"(G)loriously fragrant and complex, invested with depth and absent of heft. A swirl of red florals, souk spices, sandalwood, cranberry, sour cherry and umeboshi. The whole bunch adds savouriness, detail, lift and finely etched tannin, but knits in so quietly, with effortless integration. It’s a wine that makes me want to linger over the nose, so captivating is the fragrance. But it’s equally good on the palate, trailing long, the flavour fanning out expansively. Superb." - Marcus Ellis

"Medium-deep red-purple; lovely sweet raspberry/cherry fruit laced with mixed spices and iodine, with some complexing earthy/tarry and ironstone touches. Intense sweet fruit backed by emery-like tannins that dry the finish. Very smart Grenache" - Huon Hooke

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