Alkina Polygon No 3 Grenache 2022

Alkina Polygon No 3 Grenache 2022
$295, 14% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

This is a pretty unbelievable wine. It’s a wine of power, it’s a wine of finesse, and it’s a wine with a complex array of flavours and scents, and then into the very tannin profile itself it studs florals and woodsy spice notes galore. It has enough flex to its fruit to suggest that it could be brutish if it wanted to be, but it resists, preferring instead to stroke the feathers of the dove’s head or, in this case, the elaborate berry and spice notes. This wine’s powers of persuasion are vast. 96 points.

This wine was released a year ago but just tasting it now, I thought it was worth a note.