A Tribute to Grace Paicines Ranch Grenache 2023

A Tribute to Grace Paicines Ranch Grenache 2023

This was a barrel sample when I tasted it in the Paicines Ranch vineyard in early May 2025, and the bottle image above isn’t exactly right – the colour scheme is reversed – but you get the idea. I’m not in the habit of reviewing barrel samples but this wine presented so beautifully that I had to say something. It’s so wonderfully fresh, vibrant, fruity and energetic and yet so too is it complex with spice, smoke, mineral and flowers. There’s a wide spread of tannin here, ultra fine grained, an emery board with an urgency, and for all this it maintains its sheer, pure, raw grape-like quality. If this wine makes it safely into bottle then we have here a wine of keen finesse, and individuality, not to mention beauty.