Vinomofo McLaren Vale Grenache 2015 $35->$17.50
Vinomofo - Black Market Grenache 2015 - Red Wine
Is Willunga 100 The Hundred Clarendon
Wine Companion tasting note. (Ned Goodwin)
Rating:93
Drink By:Not Available
Price:$30.00
Date Tasted:02 Jan 2017
Alcohol:14.5%
Ned Goodwin - Published on 01 Aug 2017
This, too, like the Blewitt, hails from a prized, elevated single vineyard. Clarendon is a cooler site within the grand scheme of things, contrasting Blewitt's sand with its ancient loams. Slightly more concentrated, brooding and of darker fruit tones, this mid-weighted wine exhibits bing cherry, bitter chocolate and raspberry bonbon, cascading down a fountain of energetic acidity and delicate tannins, etched with a dusting of sand. The finish is effortless across a gradual build of flavour, rather than a wine-as with so many of the region-that bludgeons. This, too, is unoaked and tastes ever so slightly emaciated as if it is a blend of earlier and later harvested fruit, somehow not yet quite gelling.
It did win a Grenache trophy at the McLaren Vale Show in 2016/2017, but the claimed JH 96 is actually from the JH Grenache Challenge at which JH was not a judge, more sloppy work from Vinomofo.
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