SC Pannell Sunrise 99 Grenache 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of SC Pannell Sunrise 99 Grenache 2022.

SC Pannell Sunrise 99 Grenache 2022
$250, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

It’s not quite time for Grange to move over, but it is now true that many of the best red wines produced in Australia each year are being made with grenache. This wine from SC Pannell is made from 99-year-old Grenache vines (at the time of vintage; they’re now 100+-years-old) growing in the Blewitt Springs sub-region of McLaren Vale. These vines are east-facing, which means that they face the sunrise.

Yowsers this is good. So firm, so long, so intense; it’s like staring into the eye of a tiger as it mauls you. Red berries, dry spices, stonefruits hanging, flowers flung. It’s a dry juicy ricochet of a wine. Fluff no more. This is grenache for the ages. 97 points.

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This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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