Brand: S.C. Pannell
Grapes: Grenache
Vintage: 2021
ABV: 14%
Who/What/How:
- Stephen Pannell has exploded onto the Australian wine scene and quickly gone from a bright young talent, to one of the nation’s most lauded winemakers. He is a two-time winner of the famed Jimmy Watson Trophy, (Australia’s most prestigious wine award), and moved into his own McLaren Vale winery in 2014 which owns 36 hectares of vines. He seeks freshness and does so by picking the grapes far earlier than many others. As a result of this, he also restricts oak influence in wines and let the varietal notes really sing.
Taste:
- Hand-picked grapes are fermented in open top fermenters and then it spends 10 days on skins before pressing. After undergoing malolactic fermentation is spends 10 months in old French oak, to add texture but not impart flavour. Finally, it is racked twice and bottled without filtration. Rich raspberry liqueur mixes with dark spice and cinnamon. Wow, just wow!
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