Alkina Estate Grenache 2024

Alkina Estate Grenache 2024
$55, 13.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Barossa Valley.

You would have heard all the raves about Alkina over the past few years but, like me, maybe, baulked at the pricing. Here we get an insight to the Alkina magic at a more palatable level. These wines had me rushing to the keyboard. Personally, I’m in.

This is grown organically, using biodynamic principles. 200-ish dozen were made. It was fermented and matured in concrete only.

You don’t rock up to these modern grenache wines with an empty mind, or with an empty heart. You rock up full of hope. Most times, the hope quickly dissipates. But here the hope turned straight into joy, and from there we’re away, full like a balloon. Crushed rocks, berried fruits, cooling herbs, twigs, macerated flowers. This is an autumn solstice of a wine, summer and winter placed at a tension point. It’s textural. It has the presence of mind to run grip through its gears. It’s a motivated self-starter of a wine, start to finish; sans artifice. You could use the word verity and be bang on. It’s 55 bucks, on the nose, for the win.

94 points.

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Alkina is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

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Alkina Estate Semillon 2024 and Alkina Estate Shiraz 2024 are ultra impressive too. See The Winefront (subscriber only) site for reviews and scores.