100% Grenache - Aphelion The Confluence Grenache is complex, aromatic, food friendly, but fantastically drinkable wine evolves in your glass. Good structure and length. Carries the Aphelion signature savoury finish.

Aroma:

Crunchy strawberry and Campari aromatics.

Palate:

A juicy palate full of ripe cranberries and a herbal edge thanks to the whole bunch component of this wine. A long length of flavour is provided by a beautiful line of acidity and a pure crystalline core of red berry fruit. A rasp of tannin on the finish ensures versatility. This is a shy wine on opening, please give it time in the glass or decant to really let it shine.

Region Notes:

All hand-picked fruit. 60% grown on 80 year old bush vines in Blewitt Springs, the balance from a separate Blewitt Springs vineyard with 50 year old vines. Both vineyards on sandy soil.

Vinification:

A blend of whole berry (70%) and whole bunch (30%) ferments. Majority free run juice with a small percentage of light pressings.

A portion of the wine was left on skins for four months to add spice and depth. Aged in neutral French oak puncheons and foudre for ten months before blending and bottling. Unfined & unfiltered.

About Aphelion

Straight out of the blocks, this new wine label established in 2014 by husband and wife Rob and Louise Mack has already gained a strong reputation for quality and value. Pedigreed winemaker Rob Mack concentrates on grape varieties that thrive in the Mediterranean climate of McLaren Vale, producing stylish Grenache as well as other regionally emerging varieties, such as Mataro and Sagrantino.

They craft their wines to match the foods they love to eat - Italian, Mediterranean, and Asian. It starts with the sun and the earth. Aphelion Wine Co.’s growers are passionate about producing premium, hand tended grapes from only the most select, unique parcels of land.

*2018 Young Gun Winemaker of the Year Award Winner*