Clarendon Hills, Clarendon Vineyard Old Vines Grenache, South Australia

It took a few hours after a double decant to open up and show a surprising amount of jammy red fruit and copious amounts of eucalyptus. It hasn’t really evolved in 30 years, the fruit has just lost a little intensity, which for me is a good thing, but I’d prefer more complexity.

Finally calmed down. Prior tastings have been jammy fruit bombs and way too sweet. This is finally balanced. Still with plenty of fruit and now proving glimpses of tertiary flavors like forest floor and leather. Could still shed atad more sweet.

TCA big time- bummer.

I don't know if it is bottle variance, or just good winemaking, but this wine was much superior to the bottle we had a couple years prior. Ripe black cherry, char, and a hint of cinnamon stick on the nose, with black cherry, red raspberry, and tea leaf flavors. If I had it blind, I actually may have guessed a 1er or grand cru burgundy from the great aromas...this was a pleasant surprise that I truly didn't expect to be …

This wine is not nearly as big and thick as the 1996 which is not necessarily a bad thing, but the lack of richness proves to show in the mid-palate and finish. The wine was beautifully aromatic, great raspberry flavor upfront, almost a berry pie like flavor with well-balanced spice, but the wine did fade on the finish a bit. It was a very pleasant drink, but don't let it sit any longer, it is at its prime and I …

Deep red colour. Very impressive bouquet which is responsible for all of the that I will award to this wine, which was so overblown and awful to drink that I failed to produce a useful tasting note for it. Personally, I could be entertained with a glass of this just to sniff, but nothing more than that.