2024 Reserve Grenache (to be released late 2025)
($76.50 Wine Club price)
(6 Bottle Limit)
Ian Becker’s old bush block in Koonunga is caught in time. Recently brought under the Hoffmann DV banner with Adrian Hoffmann at the helm. An isolated place that produces special grapes year in, year out. The vineyard naturally crops low, essentially dry grown bush vines farmed as they were 100 years ago.
The wine is highly perfumed, with an intense fruit driven mouthful of red fruits, tannin, clearly powerful but with a subtlety and balance that belies its light colour. A beautiful wine now, even better in a few years.
($76.50 Wine Club price)
(6 Bottle Limit)
Ian Becker’s old bush block in Koonunga is caught in time. Recently brought under the Hoffmann DV banner with Adrian Hoffmann at the helm. An isolated place that produces special grapes year in, year out. The vineyard naturally crops low, essentially dry grown bush vines farmed as they were 100 years ago.
The wine is highly perfumed, with an intense fruit driven mouthful of red fruits, tannin, clearly powerful but with a subtlety and balance that belies its light colour. A beautiful wine now, even better in a few years.
($76.50 Wine Club price)
(6 Bottle Limit)
Ian Becker’s old bush block in Koonunga is caught in time. Recently brought under the Hoffmann DV banner with Adrian Hoffmann at the helm. An isolated place that produces special grapes year in, year out. The vineyard naturally crops low, essentially dry grown bush vines farmed as they were 100 years ago.
The wine is highly perfumed, with an intense fruit driven mouthful of red fruits, tannin, clearly powerful but with a subtlety and balance that belies its light colour. A beautiful wine now, even better in a few years.
Technical Tasting Notes
2024 Reserve GRENACHE
GROWING SEASON
After a long and late 2023 vintage, 2024 vintage has proved to be quite the opposite. For the calendar year 2023 Barossa Valley had 326.6mm rain, 74% of average. Our Northen Blocks were well down on this. The dry winter and spring made the vines work during the early part of the growing season, and bud burst started in September, three weeks earlier than the year before. Damaging frosts particularly, in September and October meant some vineyards had significant damage that influenced their subsequent yield. Veraison in many vineyards was a month earlier than 2023. Whites ripened quickly, retaining good fragrance and natural acids early. Reds, with small berries, show intensity and vibrancy.
An unseasonal heatwave in early March caused short-lived concern, but those vines that still had grapes recovered well in the following cooler weather. Depending on site and variety, crops are anywhere between 50 and 90% of normal. Grenache was standout for quality and yield, Shiraz was well down but looks very good in quality terms. We have very high hopes for the vintage in the years to come.
TASTING NOTE
Our 2024 Reserve Grenache from the great 2024 vintage comes from the Old Becker Block in Koonunga, This block is caught in time, old school, producing classically styled grapes and wines. The wine has all the hallmarks of Northern Barossa Grenache in a excellent season - bright medium red hue, lifted red fruits, intense fruit backed by a fine line of tannin. The perceived fruit sweetness curtsey of the old vines just adds to the appeal.
A wine that will cellar well but hard to resist now. A true best of vintage Grenache from a wonderful season.
Region/Sub Region: 100% Barossa Valley / Koonunga
Grape Variety: 100% Grenache
Alcohol: 14.7%
Production: 800 bottles and a few large format
Cellaring: 5+ years
Serve: With a range of meat and vegetarian dishes
Winemaker : Andrew Seppelt
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Reviews
2024 Reserve GRENACHE
Not Yet Reviewed
2022 Reserve GRENACHE
Vinous (Angus Hughson)
95 Points - The 2022 Grenache Reserve is a rare, single vineyard Barossa Grenache, with only 300 bottles produced. Superb composure marks it from start to finish, although it remains embryonic and tightly wound. The wine radiates with a deep-set core of perfectly ripened dark cherry, new leather and brooding dark earthy fruits. The structure is equally impressive, with dense tannins and vibrant acidity providing a long, sustained finish, accentuated by ham bone and smoky complexity. A fantastic overall package that promises plenty with time.
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