Bulman Wines

Bulman Wines is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

When the history of modern Australian wine is written, the name Mark Bulman will feature. It will because he was the first winemaker to win Australia’s most prestigious wine prize – the Jimmy Watson Trophy – with a varietal grenache, and then because he’s followed it, under his own name, with grenache releases that are of the highest of high standard. In short, Mark Bulman is an Australian winemaker of significance. His Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine 2023, from the Stonegarten vineyard in the Eden Valley, re-writes what’s possible for this region. I wrote about and described this wine in the Winefront at length, concluding with the words: “It throws characters of stone, concrete, redcurrant, blood orange, mint, rust, seaweed and assorted other shopping list items, but it’s the flamboyance of its scent, the long raking farmland of tannin, and the collection of blood-splattered stones that really set it in its place. Yes, I think it’s good.” The Bulman Gary’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine 2023 – from McLaren Vale – is a different wine but is of the same, elite quality standard, and like its Eden Valley sibling, shines light into places that had previously only known shade. The list of Mattinson 10-Star Wineries is all about the here are now; it’s not a legacy list. With the release of the 2024 Bulman Grenache wines we’re still only four wines into the launch of the Bulman brand’s story, but this producer has arrived fully formed, and its quality is elite.

Both the 2023 Bulman (single vineyard) grenache releases are fascinating. Winefront reviews here.

The follow-up

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The follow-up 2024 Bulman wines franked the debut magnificence of the inaugural 2023 releases. Of the 2024 Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache I wrote, on The Winefront, in part: “I’ve gone through two bottles of this and half-way through the first, I started texting people. It’s one of those wines; it gets you excited; a few glasses in and you want to start shouting about it. If this was the house wine at LinkedIn, all the doom-and-gloom talk about the state of the wine industry here and abroad would stop in an instant. We live in exquisite wine times, we must, because here it is.”

Of the 2024 Bulman Gary’s Vineyard Grenache I wrote, on The Winefront, in part: “The purity of this wine feels more like honesty. It skips over the essences and drives straight for the essential. It’s the face of character, served clean, lined deep.”