This baker’s dozen brings together some delightful GSM and straight Grenache — including a couple of drops of French happiness from the Cevennes and the highly regarded and tiny Gadagne sub-region of the Rhône Valley. You’ll find 96-point winners, single vineyard treasures, and more.
There’s Kim Brebach’s top-rated GSM of the past year, a couple of excellent everyday drinkers and a French GSM from the Southern Rhône to round things off. That’s 13 bottles of spice, plushness, and regional character — all drinking beautifully right now.
Red fruited, black fruited, aromatic, juicy, rich, with satsuma plum fleshiness and juice. Cloves, smoked meat, cinnamon and spice. Powerful! Opens superbly with decanting and definitely worth having with food. This is an organic and biodynamic wine. There is a little CO2 trapped in the wine as a preservative, so give it a vigorous decant before drinking.
Kilikanoon grow or buy a vast quantity of Clare Grenache - no surprise then that they produce some of the finest Grenache in the Valley. They also arguably produce the region's best Shiraz, 'hello Kilikanoon Revelation and Attunga'. Their GSMs also fare well - the current $40 a bottle Baudinet having picked up multiple trophies. So, we're very excited to introduce the first ever Kilikanoon Meymans GSM, a mid-weight, complex and textural beast which offers comforting blue and black fruit, spice and whisper fine tannins. We love it.
Made Where: Cévennes IGP, within the Languedoc Roussillon
Yeah, but where’s that? Southern France
Aromas and Flavours: Crunchy red fruits and spice but with excellent depth of fruit.
Drink if you like: Bright, fresh wines with fruit power
Useful: Anytime – Drink it whenevs
Superb, bright and zesty fruit with underlying power. No oak, here, so A-grade fruit is on display and sunning itself in a fairly impressive fashion. The first glass invited another.
93pts Sam Kim, 93pts Ken Gargett, 91pts James Halliday, 91pts Wine Pilot
A beautifully fragrant Grenache packed to the gunnels with bright and delicious red fruits, spice and lip tingling acidity. Awesome with a range of savoury dishes, especially crispy pork.
