2024 Trott Vineyard Blewitt Springs Grenache

TASTING NOTE

A mix of juicy red and black cherries, bergamot and rose water along with earthy spice and minerally ferrous notes give a savoury edge to the wine.
The palate has flavours of fresh red cherries, pomegranate, rose and lavender florals but also darker earthy spice and hints of red liquorice.
Is textural and complex, yet has a freshness and brightness about it, fine, silky long tannins give the wine length, and the flavours really linger.

VINTAGE

The season started with a dry winter and start to spring- warm days and quite cool nights meant a slow start to shoot growth, and smaller crops in some early flowering varieties, but in mid-November the weather pattern changed to give us a lot of rain and some humidity, which helped with shoot growth and to improve crop levels, but was challenging in the vineyards to keep disease under control.  In early January the rain stopped thankfully, and we had dry conditions right the way through harvest, so disease was much less of an issue than it could have been.  A few short heat waves provided some challenges, but generally the wine quality is very good. 

VINEYARD

A single vineyard Grenache sourced from Sue Trott’s vineyard in Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale. The Vineyard's dry grown bush vines were planted in 1952 and are grown on deep Maslin Sand over clay and ironstone. Vineyard is situated at 210m above sea level on an East facing slope.

WINEMAKING

Fruit was hand harvested, 10% whole bunch, remainder de-stemmed into stainless steel open fermenters. The ferment spent 11 days on skins, during which time it was gently plunged to ensure optimum extraction whilst maintaining the delicate aromatics. Wine was basket pressed off skins before maturation and malolactic fermentation on lees- the majority (about 85%) in stainless steel and the remaining approximately 15% in an older puncheon.

Vegan friendly

FOOD PAIRING

Tea smoked duck

WINEMAKER

Renae Hirsch

REVIEWS

2024 VINTAGE

97 Points
Halliday Wine Companion - Marcus Ellis

"From Sue Trott’s acclaimed Blewitt Springs vineyard, a Vale Cru, perhaps, alongside the Smart vineyard. Bush vines, planted in '52 to Maslin Sands over clay and ironstone; about 10% whole bunch; 11 days on skins, élevage in tank (85%) and an older puncheon. The Trott vineyard can often look a little darker in fruit profile, here more into deeper red fruits like blood-red cherries and ripe raspberries. It’s completely refined and transparent with it though, with dark red rose notes, pomegranate, barberry, tamarind, North African spices and musk layering in considerable complexity. This is the most textural and supple of the trio of single-site offerings, but it also has the architecture to age. Just wonderful and, for the quality, obscenely good value."

2023 VINTAGE

2025 National Wine Show
Gold Medal

"Willunga 100's winning Grenache, sourced from its own estate vineyard in Blewitt Springs, was not the only highlight for the McLaren Vale producer. It's Gold medal-winning 2023 Trott Vineyard Blewitt Springs Grenache was also among the five finalists competing for the Grenache Trophy"

96 Points
The Australian, Nick Ryan

"Planted in 1952 close to Blind Spot but at slightly higher elevation, its ancient sands sitting over a limestone base. The fruit is plumper; dark raspberry and cherry, plus some blood sausage meatiness. It’s lean and athletic through the palate, crouched like a stalking lion, all rippling muscle and fast-twitch fibres."

96 Points
Halliday Wine Companion - Marcus Ellis

"Sourced from Sue Trott’s vineyard in Blewitt Springs off dry-grown bush vines planted in '52; soils are deep Maslin sand over clay and ironstone; 10% whole bunch, the remainder destemmed; 10 days on skins; matured in stainless steel. From a hallowed site, this is a deeply layered expression, though so transparent of making. Fruits flow through red and into black, with some sour plums jostling with the redcurrant jelly and ripe wild-raspberry notes, Baharat spices, bergamot, tamarind paste and warmed star anise. Even at this early stage, there is a deeply meditative quality to the expression, a wine speaking clearly of fruit, place and a beneficial (if difficult) season.."

96 Points
The Real Review - Huon Hooke

"Deep, bold red-purple clour; smoked meaty reductive nuances over dark fruits and graphite. As it aired in the glass, more blackberry aromas, the palate full-bodied and fruit-sweet in its core, plush and succulent, loaded with charm. Full bodied and impressively proportioned, balanced and aproachable now although will certainly age brilliantly."

95 Points
The Wine Front - Gary Walsh

"Tasting three Grenache from three different sites, and while they share similar traits, they’re quite different in character, which is very encouraging, and as it should be. This is from 1952 plantings. Ripe cherry, blackberry, black tea, dried herb and floral things, slight menthol. Medium to full-bodied, a more robust style with chewy tannin, lots of impact and presence, dark spices, raspberry and cranberry brightness, in with more emphatic ferrous things, and a firm finish of excellent length. Quite a wine."