The wines from Willunga 100 add to the increasingly compelling argument that grenache is the most interesting varietal in the country at the moment.
Twenty years ago, when London-based importer and Master of Wine David Gleave visited McLaren Vale with an eye to producing his own reds to ship back to the UK, grenache was not the grape variety he was looking for.
Vigneron Bernard Smart, 90, and his son Wayne in the Smart vineyard at Willunga that was planted by Bernard’s father in 1923. “Tim said, ‘I love those unoaked Southern Rhone grenaches I drank when I was in France, and I’d love to have a go at making wine like that.’ So we did. And the second vintage we made that way won the trophy for ‘best alternative red’ at the National Wine Show in Canberra in 2017.”At the same event this year, another Willunga 100 unoaked single-site grenache – the 2021 Smart Vineyard – won the trophy for “best grenache”.
But it’s worth telling the Willunga 100 story, too, not just because the wines are very good, but because they add to the increasingly compelling argument that grenache is the most exciting red grape in Australia right now. Especially grenache made from old vines grown in vineyards with the kind of distinctly different terroirs that wine geeks geek-out about.
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