Thistledown Sands of Time Grenache 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Thistledown Sands of Time Grenache.

Thistledown Sands of Time Grenache 2024
AU$95, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This is from the Trott Vineyard, planted in the Blewitt Springs sub-region in 1952.

This wine is a joy to behold. It’s awash with raspberry, anise, twiggy spice and almond-cream characters but it’s the light insistence, the fragrance, the formation of filigreed tannin and then the long sail of the finish that really sets the quality and, in the process, beguiles. Joy to grenache. 95 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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.

More about Campbell Mattinson

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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