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Description
The Oeno Grenache is the latest offering from one of Australia’s top Grenache experts, Michael Corbett. While it’s his third-tier Grenache, it offers exceptional value, especially for a wine of this calibre.
This debut release comes from the Rende Vineyard in Blewitt Springs, perched over 200 metres above sea level. Named after the evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) that thrives alongside the vines, the Oeno Grenache is a wine designed to highlight the lighter, friskier Grenache components on the beautiful Rende vineyard.
Handpicked and whole-bunch fermented, with 60% of the grapes left in their clusters, the wine spent 11 months in French oak puncheons before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. Expect bright notes of raspberry, red currant, and cherry, with hints of spice and earthiness.
This organic, vegan-friendly Grenache is beautifully balanced and built to age. But with such a limited release, it won’t be available for long—making it a smart grab for anyone looking to add a top-notch Grenache to their collection without overspending.
95 points
"Michael Corbett is a brilliant, belligerent barrel of a man who deploys the full force of his high-octane obsessiveness in the pursuit of great grenache... Grenache Yoda does it again."
- Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)
93 points
"Raspberry, cherry, a fair bit of herb and bunchy spice, also some almond paste and floral notes. It’s sappy and red fruited, quite spicy, dusty tannin grip, perhaps a little sweet and sour ex whole bunch stuff, some pomegranate tang, with a bright finish of fine length."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)
93 points
"Cranberry, dried raspberry, tart redcurrant, ground, dried orange peel, tamarind, dusty white peppercorns, carraway, rye, it’s tartly pitched, taut but agreeably so, a wine that calls for food, Italianate in a way."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)
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