Bulman Gary's Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine 2025
Bulman Gary's Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine 2025
A$75, 13.9% alcohol, DIAM cork, Mclaren Vale.
97 points – Campbell Mattinson.
This wine saw whole bunches, but only 14% of them. It spent 21 days on skins pre-ferment, 32 days in ferment, and 38 days on skins post ferment. It then cubby-housed away for 172 days in a sandstone amphora. It was grown on the Springs Hill Vineyard, established 1974. Skye Salter, Charlie Seppelt and Gary Whaite tended the vineyard through the 2025 growing days.
I’m just going to quote my review from The Winefront, direct. Winefront reviews the Bulman wines first, and comprehensively.
“This wine is insanely good. Not only is it transfixing, but there's a logic and an explain to the transfix. It's a web-like wine with such genuine translucence that drinking it is like looking at a bare mid-riff uninterrupted. It drives red berries into orange blossoms, stones into black tea, woody spice into a marriage of red roses. The colour of this wine is more art-house than Hollywood; it's light and delicate, like fragility in red. What made me swear though, out loud, was the tannin. The tannin here is like an argument where everyone is in furious agreement. This wine exists on the edge of tension, in the space where joy peeps above heartache. It's sure. It takes your hand. It comforts and it holds. If you took a dress and cut it back to a skirt and trailed it through dirt and berries and dew, you'd have this wine, or the idea of it. It's light. And it's shockingly good.”
See also [Bulman 10-Star Winery]
See also [Best Australian Grenache]
