SC Pannell Sunrise 99 Grenache 2022

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

SC Pannell Sunrise 99 Grenache 2022
AU$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 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 – Campbell Mattinson.

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See also [Best Australian Grenache]
See also [S.C. Pannell is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery]
See also [S.C. Pannell Little Banch Grenache 2023]

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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