Greenock Creek, Cornerstone Grenache, Barossa Valley

Very nice grenache with a slightly sweet tone to its fruit. High quality and very drinkable inspite of its high alcohol.

Colour: translucent burgundy Nose: maraschino cherry and cherries preserved in liqueur. A touch of cassis. Turkish delight and icing sugar. There's more dark fruit character than I remember -- blackberry and star anise, tobacco. White pepper. Old oak. Very rich. Palate: raspberry and cherry liqueur, perhaps cassis. Lots of rich red and black fruit. Sweet spice and old oak, some dark medicinal/cough liquid charter, and perhaps tobacco. At the moment it seems a bit closed and muted, but the lovely …

Nose: Still seems very young. A little closed on first opening, then opened out to give raspberry, cherry and preserved/liquored cherries. Maybe a touch of sweet spice and old oak. Perhaps rosewater. Palate: Again, opened up with some air. Lots of rich raspberry, cherry and liquored cherry. Rich, unctuous, smooth ... but not over-ripe or jammy. Just enough acidity and fine grained smooth tannins to keep it balanced. Doesn't taste hot, despite the 15.5% alcohol. Just beautifully balanced, rich. Creamy, …

Greenock Creek tasting with Jarrod Shields (Cloudwine South Melbourne) : Fresh red berries and a fairly dense, but very moorish palette of red fruit and subtle oak with a spicy tannin finish.

A disappointment. I wont be finishing the bottle, and probably wont bother to use it for cooking either. Bottle is of unknown provenance, but not blatantly spoiled. It reminds me of the 1998 Parker Coonawarra Estate Terra Rossa First Growth (which i scored 90pts!?!), tastes tired, or as my dad put it like a bad wine with sherry added to it. Individually there are some interesting flavors in there, but as a whole it is average at its most generous. …

This was excellent wine. Very massive, rich, alcoholic and a bit phenolic. Raisiny raspberries, leather and a touch of farmyard. Similar to the Steading 2003 drunk a few days earlier but more involving and complex. This is not a subtle wine although it does have subtleties. Overall - an interesting new world take on a grenache based CNdP style. I liked it a lot - although it is not an everyday wine!

Bought on release from Suburban Wines in Yorktown Heights, NY and cellared at 58 degrees ever since. This is a BIG wine. A whiff of eucalyptus on the nose. This bottle is rockin'!! Lovely velvety mouthfeel, succulent fruit, tannins well integrated with balancing acidity. No heat on the finish. Lovely velvety, succulent cherry menthol/eucalyptus fruit. Nice long 30 second finish. A remarkable wine! I wish I had more.

not as good as a couple of years ago, quite a bit more oxidation, but opened up OK after a couple of hours. It still had a bit of raspberry and black cherry fruit, but it was harder to find this time around. As with most wines, it was better once we had it with the roasted porkloin.

I asked my friend Dan Philips at the Grateful Palate what I should drink from my late 1990's Australia stash. He suggested the Greenock Creek Grenache has peeked. I opened it last night and found that to be true. The wine is still very big and tannic, but the fruit has been absorbed. The wine is 16.1% alcohol and the predominant flavor is acidic alchohol and tannin. It matches up OK against some big meat but the big Aussie fruit …

I let the 2nd half of the bottle sit over night (in the 'fridge with the cork in) and finished it off this evening. The tannins softened over night and the wine is much more balanced and enjoyable 24 hours later. It's still toward the end of its life, but it was tasty against some grilled chicken. Drink it up now and decant to soften it up.

VERY FRUITY WITH JAMMY CHERRIES, RASPBERRIES, AND PLUMS IN THE NOSE AND FLAVOR, NICE LEGS AND COMPLEXITY. MEDIUM TO LONG FINISH.

Mouthfilling wine. Complex aromas of cherry and spice. In the mouth explosions of fruit. Good length of flavour albeit with a hint of bitterness.

Dinner with Steve and Sue. Dark red in color. Spice and kirsch make up the aromatics on this big, bold Grenache. Very glyceral on the palate. This bottle was showing a little hot.