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Red
750ml
Bottle: $45.82
12 bottles: $44.90
The 2021 Grenache Bessan Vineyard is one of the more austere selections in this range. Fruit is very much pushed into...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $50.94
12 bottles: $49.92
A new wine in this range, the 2021 Grenache Dorigo Family Vineyard emerges from a site in Ballard Canyon. Rich, heady...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $28.93
12 bottles: $28.35
The Santa Barbara County Grenache was inspired by Fonsalette from Chateau Rayas. The wine represents two very...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.87
12 bottles: $41.03
The 2021 Grenache Santa Barbara Highlands Vineyard is one of the more ethereal and aromatic wines in this range....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $44.93
12 bottles: $44.03
Fermented with 38% whole clusters, the 2020 Grenache Thompson Vineyard is more meaty and almost nutty, with ripe,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $51.94
A sleek, harmonious red, with a rich undertow of sweet smoke, fig jam and mocha notes, plus generous flavors of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $26.88 $29.59
An elegant red, with a dark fruit core of boysenberry coulis, black plum reduction and dried fig buoyed by fresh,...
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Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.70 $13.00
12 bottles: $11.12
100% Garnacha sourced from three villages within Sierra Santa Cruz, Aragon. Hand-harvested partially destemmed but...
Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $279.94
(95-98) The more backward of the 2021s was the 2021 Finca Dofí, which was very primary and smelled almost like the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $94.95
12 bottles: $93.05
(95-98) The more backward of the 2021s was the 2021 Finca Dofí, which was very primary and smelled almost like the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $344.95 $346.90
The single-vineyard 2019 Quiñón de Valmira is made with Garnacha (and 10% other traditional varieties) grown at 616...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $75.60
6 bottles: $74.09
This old-vine Grenache delivers aromas of strawberry and rose jam that is hard to resist. Red licorice, green herbs...
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Case only
Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $22.94
Bright ruby red in the glass, this wine displays lifted aromatics of strawberry, violets and cinnamon, with an...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.94 $31.00
12 bottles: $26.98
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $16.66
12 bottles: $15.83
The 2022 Camino de Navaherreros is pale, light and primary. It was produced with Garnacha and 10% Tempranillo that...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $46.84
12 bottles: $45.90
There is more complete ripeness in the 2021 Arroyo del Tórtolas, which shows a darker hue than the 2020 I tasted...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $61.84
12 bottles: $60.60
The 2021 Garnacha de Viña Bonita is pure Garnacha from a plot of very old vines planted in 1929 on very shallow and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.94
12 bottles: $24.44
The 2022 Camino de Navaherreros is pale, light and primary. It was produced with Garnacha and 10% Tempranillo that...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $26.84 $28.20
12 bottles: $26.30
This young bottling will have a long cellar life, thanks perhaps to the old-vine attributes. Aromas of amaro-like...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.99
12 bottles: $29.39
The top wine, made in tiny quantities, the 2015 Brega comes from the oldest vineyards of the estate (both planted...
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Grenache

The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.

For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.