Yelland & Papps Old Vine Grenache 2006

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Archived Wines » Yelland & Papps Old Vine Grenache 2006

Region Barossa Valley, SA
Type Red
Size 750ml
Alcohol 14.5%

A perfumed and medium bodied Grenache with raspberries surrounding a kernel of darker fruit, charry notes and spice. French oak adds savoury complexity to the sweeter fruit and the tannins are tightly knit and long. A handful of Barossa earth rounds out a terrific wine that would be equally suitable for a hearty stew or a bbq. It's drinking very well now but will continue to develop earthy & leathery characters along with extra depth if you can keep your hands off it for another five years. -JP

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93Points

Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

says:

This is a different expression of Old Vine (it’s made from grapes grown on vines planted in the early 1960s) Barossa Valley grenache. It’s matured in old French oak for 20 months and is bottled unfiltered, with a make of 150 dozen. What makes it different is that it’s light-footed and spritely, with a curve of flavour rather than a syrupy thrust of it. It’s a wine you kind of have to “get”, or else it would seem a touch on the light side...It’s a classically welded wine with, sure, flavours of aniseed, raspberry, earth and perhaps even some fresh leather, but what it’s really characterised by is its high level of perfectly integrated acidity teamed with multiple springs of tannin. Excellent length too. A fine wine in the making.

92Points

James Halliday, The Wine Companion

says:

As ever, has the sweet confit fruit of Barossa Valley grenache, but has been sensitively made, the extract controlled, and French (not American) oak used.

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