Purple Hands Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache 2024

Purple Hands Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache 2024
$120, 14.5% alcohol,. screwcap, Barossa Valley.

It’s incredible to note that this wine was grown on vines that are now 145 years old. The Barossa Valley is such a remarkable wine land. This release, in the glass, walks a perfect line between bold fruit flavour and elegant expression. It’s fragrant, it’s red berried, it shows flashes of woodsy and indeed peppery spice, and it has floral characters inlaid. This wine is not short of flavour, or tannin, and yet it feels delicate, as the best grenache always does. There’s a grunty, fruit-rich firmness to the finish but in every other way this wine takes each step carefully, in the best of ways. 95 points.