2024 Paralian Marmont Vineyard Blewitt Springs Grenache

Rich, juicy and muscular this is classic Blewitt Springs Grenache delivered with great authority.

From 65+ year old Blewitt Springs vines with 20% whole bunch fermentation and maturation in old French oak for a period of 10 months. Dark red heart with black toned edges and a red to dark red hue. Enchanting aromas of red to dark raspberry, red liquorice and dark cherry are delivered with impressive intensity trailed by some crushed rock, vanillin spice and peppered herb notes. Rich, juicy and energetic, dark raspberry, red liquorice and red to dark cherry fruits burst across the palate with explosive force. A bed of crushed rock, dried herbs and peppered earth lie underneath. A muscular yet integrated tannin structure together with mouth watering acidity provide wonderful tension. Magnificent depth and concentration of fruit finishing long, expansive and super succulent yet resoundingly fresh.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 14%

Other Reviews….
Pale in the glass and engagingly savoury, feeling a little less up-front fruitful than the '23 at the same stage, but certainly no less for it. More, perhaps. This is savoury, with pressed flowers, dried cranberry, damson and macerated cherries, warm stone, whole spices – fennel seed, clove, cardamom – and a little blood orange note, speaking to flavour and zesty, sour-fruited tension. The tannins, chalky, pithy, sandy and purposeful is a real feature, as is the fine seam of acid. It’s a wine built with a light, thoughtful touch, confident, layered and very engaging. Drink by 2036.
96 Points
Marcus Ellis - James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

The best grenache wines wear their structure, and their delicacy, on their sleeve. This release from outstanding McLaren Vale producer Paralian does both those things. Indeed if you want to know why there’s so much excitement around McLaren Vale grenache these days, buy and drink this wine. It offers ample raspberried, boysenberried, strawberried fruit, throws floral and sweet spice characters into the fray, and then draws all these elements long through the finish via exquisite, earthen, assertive chains of tannin. The words ‘it’s a pearler’ might have been uttered.
95 Points
CampbellMattinson.com

Raspberry, almond and peanut packed milk chocolate, spice and perfume, a subtle nori character too with Japanese ginger tucked in. It’s medium-bodied, red cherry and raspberry, again the almond meal richness, a bright cranberry freshness to acidity, quite some fine sandstone grip to tannin gives it substance and texture, spiced blood orange rolls on a crisp finish of excellent length. A super Grenache, though it’s quite firm and structured, so give it another year or two, I’d say. Drink 2026-2033+
95 Points
Gary Walsh – The Wine Front