{"title":"Aphelion 2025 Single Site Grenache","description":"\u003cp\u003eAphelion's 2025 Single Site Grenache release from McLaren Vale: The Plaisted's (new to the range), Wait, Brini and Hickinbotham. This vintage from Aphelion rates as perhaps the best we have seen, with scores of 96 to 97 points across the range.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aphelion-wait-grenache-2025","title":"Aphelion Wait Grenache 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97 POINTS – Halliday Wine Companion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There's a generosity to this, not plush as such, but just enveloping, with the transparency and refined detail of the house. Tannins pithy, grippy, moreish; acidity energising. As the name says: Wait (or decant). This is excellent.\" – Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, 97 Points\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of Aphelion's Single Site range, a snapshot of individual patches of ground across McLaren Vale, each picked, made and bottled to speak of its place. Sourced from the Wait family vineyard in the Blewitt Springs sub-region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2025 was a short and sharp vintage, the earliest Aphelion has seen, with all fruit picked within a month. A warmer than average winter brought the whole season forward, so the ripening period was similar in length to prior years, and lovely late ripening temperatures delivered wines of high concentration and intense colour. Aphelion consider it a very strong year for Grenache in particular – perhaps close to the best they have seen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aphelion","offers":[{"title":"1 Bottle","offer_id":67735640506477,"sku":"RAWAPHG26-2","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1421\/5622\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_5ecf9242-61e7-4e4a-b463-39171cc4bbbb.jpg?v=1792093739"},{"product_id":"aphelion-hickinbotham-grenache-2025","title":"Aphelion Hickinbotham Grenache 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e96 POINTS – Halliday Wine Companion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...there's a red-fruited core, with some prettiness of cherry, redcurrant and cranberry filtering through, along with ginger, cinnamon and sumac spice notes. There's also a hint of pink peppercorn, rose and musk. Ripe, natural acidity gives this a crystalline precision, and it will age. If drinking sooner, give this ample air. The virtue will be rewarded.\" – Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, 96 Points\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of Aphelion's Single Site range. Sourced from Blocks 111–113 at the highest elevation of the Hickinbotham vineyard in Clarendon. A southerly aspect provides respite from the hot afternoon sun during ripening, ensuring this fruit is the last Grenache harvested, with a very long hang time on the vine and a very well-developed flavour profile. The highest altitude wine in the range, with vibrancy and crisp acid drive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2025 was a short and sharp vintage, the earliest Aphelion has seen, with all fruit picked within a month. A warmer than average winter brought the whole season forward, so the ripening period was similar in length to prior years, and lovely late ripening temperatures delivered wines of high concentration and intense colour. Aphelion consider it a very strong year for Grenache in particular – perhaps close to the best they have seen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aphelion","offers":[{"title":"1 Bottle","offer_id":67735640572013,"sku":"RAWAPHG26-4","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1421\/5622\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_980bd044-a2e6-4fc4-8e40-533ce0a35abd.jpg?v=1792093739"},{"product_id":"aphelion-brini-grenache-2025","title":"Aphelion Brini Grenache 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e96 POINTS – Halliday Wine Companion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The coolness of the whole bunch is there, more so than the other wines in this range, though still ever so discreetly. Yet there is also a darkness of fruit, a site thing, with black cherry, dark plum, a brooding quality, dark spices – ground anise, cassia, clove, perhaps – some celery salt and sarsaparilla\/amaro accents, a little chocolate even.\" – Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, 96 Points\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of Aphelion's Single Site range. Sourced from the upper tank block on the Brini vineyard in the northeast corner of the Blewitt Springs sub-region of McLaren Vale. This block has been a staple of Aphelion since their first vintage and forms the backbone of the Confluence Grenache. Sandy-based loam soils provide fruit of intensity and a brooding edge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2025 was a short and sharp vintage, the earliest Aphelion has seen, with all fruit picked within a month. A warmer than average winter brought the whole season forward, so the ripening period was similar in length to prior years, and lovely late ripening temperatures delivered wines of high concentration and intense colour. Aphelion consider it a very strong year for Grenache in particular – perhaps close to the best they have seen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aphelion","offers":[{"title":"1 Bottle","offer_id":67735640703085,"sku":"RAWAPHG26-3","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1421\/5622\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_c4603c5d-62df-4748-8d4a-c9415275ddf7.jpg?v=1792093740"},{"product_id":"aphelion-the-plaisteds-grenache-2025","title":"Aphelion The Plaisted's Grenache 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNEW TO THE RANGE | 96 POINTS – The Wine Front\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificent grenache. So perfumed, so sure, so firm and yet so well extended. Velvety layers of blueberry, raspberry, violet and cedar come run through with sweet spice, mint, ozone and orange. The firm, extended control of the finish is a treat in itself. This is grenache as a foundation stone. It's an epic release from Aphelion.\" – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, 96 Points\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe newest addition to Aphelion's Single Site Grenache range. The Plaisted's vineyard was planted in 1947 and is now farmed by the Hatwell family, with Matt Hatwell one of McLaren Vale's gun viticulturists. Aphelion had long admired the wines made from this site, and one vintage was all it took: the 2025 fruit was so good that The Plaisted's went straight into the Single Site program.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2025 was a short and sharp vintage, the earliest Aphelion has seen, with all fruit picked within a month. 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