Mourvèdre Grenache Shiraz 2022

Tasting Note

Dark cherry, damson plum, cola, salted licorice, bitter chocolate, exotic spice and dried herb. Rich and complex with super fine tannins and a plush palate – this is how you treat yourself because that’s what life’s about!

Whilst the Dinner Wine is delicious to drink now, you can also slip a few in the cellar and wait for the magic to happen.

Awards & Accolades

Gold Medal
McLaren Vale Wine Show

93 Points
The Real Review

"Deep, bright red-purple colour with a mixed spice nose of clove, pepper and other brown spices, the palate full-bodied and deep with good tannin structure and a touch of firmness. The fruit does the talking but it's far from simplistic. The mourvèdre shows through and it has ageing potential". 
- Huon Hooke

92 Points
Haliday Wine Companion

"46/35/19% mourvèdre/grenache/shiraz from Blewitt Springs, McLaren Flat and Tatachilla, respectively. All open ferments, hand plunged, élevage in old French oak, bottled unfined and unfiltered. The ‘dinner wine’ in the Grant Nash range delivers a mouthful of both black and red fruits, but there’s savoury tempering with lifted anise, clove, woodsy herbs, laurel, violet and white pepper. It’s moodier, more brooding, than its ‘lunch wine’ sibling, with both more richness and a firmer tannin base, but picking between the two is more about preference than quality."
- Marcus Ellis

91 Points
The Wine Front

"The sweetness of the fruit profile here promotes an impression of generosity and then some. This is like supping at a big of bowl of delicious berries, red and black, blue and aniseed-studded. It keeps itself neat, and it throws rounds of bay leaf and five-spice into the mix, but it’s the squishy gorgeousness of the berries doing all the main talking".
- Campbell Mattinson

Fleurieu Living Magazine

"The sometimes cryptic Mourvèdre grape is looking very comfortable in this three way blend. Blueberry and darker plum fruits lead this one along with some attractive herb and redder fruit tones. Drink over the next five years".
- Nick Stock

Winemaking

A blend of 46% Mourvèdre, 35% Grenache and 19% Shiraz, the Dinner Wine is a modern take on the great Southern Rhone blends which have inspired our winemaking journey.  

The Mourvèdre is hand harvested from a dry grown block on deep Blewitt Springs sand. It’s dark and broody yet displays the trademark perfume and finesse this sub region is known for.

The Grenache is hand harvested from gnarly old McLaren Flat bush vines planted in 1941 and contributes red fruits and spice with fine, silky tannins.

The Shiraz is sourced from a beautiful site high on a ridge in Tatachilla that benefits from the cooling sea breeze, retaining the redder fruit flavours and beautiful florals and aromatics. 

Open fermentation, hand plunged, matured in French oak puncheons, no fining or filtration.