2021 MMAD Vineyard Grenache Blewitt Springs

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  10/18/2023 - Shloly Likes this wine: 90 Points

  The wine is clear, with pale ruby color, slightly garnet towards the rims, and thick legs.
  
  On the nose the wine is clean, with medium plus primary aroma intensity of red fruits, plums, strawberry jam, raspberries, hints of herbaceous, and sweet spices.
  
  On the palate the wine is dry, with medium plus acidity, medium green-ripe tannins, medium alcohol, medium body, medium plus primary flavor intensity of red fruits, redberries, black fruits, blackberries, hints of animal notes, forest floor.
  Finish is long.
  
  The wine is of a very good quality, due to its excellent balance between fruit characteristics, acidity and minerality. It is having great length, and pleasant concentration.
  
  The wine was expressive enough at time of tasting, especially on the nose, which was absolutely beautiful!, however quite youthful, also showing some green notes, thus can benefit from further bottle aging.
  Winemaking is brilliant on this one, very clean, sharp, vibrant, precise, but also a bit dusty like, which makes it very appealing.

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  10/18/2023 - kostaslonis Likes this wine:

  Tasting Ground official tasting, MMAD Vineyards (Oinoscent): Fragrant, floral notes, juicy red fruit, fresh herbal notes, nice spice frame, palate with lively elevated acidity, crunchy red currant, pomegranate, med body, a touch warmth, elegant

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  9/26/2023 - colinscellar Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Neon purple edge to the colour and a bit of redskins lolly makes me think there's some carbonic maceration here. Bright raspberry and pomegranate/cranberry fruit with a crunchy tartness. Some earthy spice warmth. Lots to like here.

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  9/24/2023 - Stanrocks wrote: 91 Points

  It's a bit strange as the wine is opened for a while now, and starts really to deliver !
  
  Opened on the 20th and it was very closed, nosewise same ! not showing much, but after a couple of hours and days with screw caps doing great job. BTW it is shitty screw caps that doesn't fit Coravin standards, need bigger corvine caps ! so two kind of caps ! man never ending money spent
  
  Next advise, cool it down a bit, room temp does not help at all showing more alcohol...
  
  Nose of squid ink, china ink, ripe dark fruits, black tea Russian blend style, a hint of olives
  
  Palate is a bit closed and tight, high tannins, and a solid backbone, but with a coller temperature loses the overly ripe fruit profile and seems much more Frenchy, a bit in between CDP and Gigonds... really starting to enjoy that one when I was first really disappointed.
  
  Lots of fruits till and it will certainly be wort forgetting that baby 6/10 at least.
  
  Obviously well maintained and oxygen dealt !
  
  Standard S and S craft
  
  Will reach better marks with age for sure. High price point so far ! Juts like the whole new range since S and S left the ship

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  6/29/2023 - kostaslonis Likes this wine:

  10th MW Symposium, Wiesbaden - Day 1: Alcohol 14.0%, 0.3 g/l residual sugar, 4.8 g/l acidity, 3.42 pH
  Vineyard: MMAD Vineyard
  Located in the dress circle of Blewitt Springs, MMAD Vineyard was first planted in 1939, and the oldest Shiraz blocks date from 1941. The vineyard has the fine Maslin sands found in Blewitt Springs and is exposed to the fresh sea breezes from the south- west. Below the sand is a layer of ironstone pebbles and this combination of sand, ironstone and cooling winds gives both perfume and structure to the wines. 30+ yo vines. Yield: 6t/ha hl/ha. Soil Type: Maslin sand over ironstone.
  
  Vinification: Lovely mild ripening conditions gave us Grenache with an intense core of red and blue fruit. There is a purity and density but also a lightness that belies the energy and power of the fruit. Raspberry coulis and pomegranate notes sit alongside fennel seed and cumin and flavours continue to unfurl as the wine sits in the glass.
  Maturation: The grapes were mostly destemmed and fermented as whole berries in open concrete and stainless steel, before aging in used 500 ltr puncheons.
  Oak influence: French oak.
  Months in bottle: 6
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  Fragrant, floral notes, juicy, red fruit, berries, elegant, juicy tannins, smooth, red fruit.

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