Grenache The Vincent 2021

CIRILLO ESTATE WINES

Grenache The Vincent
2021

Country
Australia
Regulated designation
Table wine
Region
South Australia
Subregion
Barossa
Varietal(s)
Grenache
Colour
Red
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About this winery

Hailing from the sun baked southern Italian region of Calabria, Vincent Cirillo immigrated to South Australia in 1946 with over 400 years of wine making history in the family spanning 9 generations. The Barossa Valley became home in 1842, along with the acquisition of some remarkable vineyards planted in 1848, making them of some of the very first Barossa Valley vines ever planted. These parcels of Grenache and Semillon are now recognised as the oldest surviving and producing examples of these...

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Product notes

The Vincent is a thank you to my father who has passed eight generations of Italian winemaking and grape growing knowledge down to the ninth.

Tasting notes

The Vincent offers inviting aromas of rich fruit and white pepper. The palate is generous with intense true varietal characteristics. It’s delicately rounded and generous. A superb Grenache that has a lingering finish. A wine that can be enjoyed now, or well into the future.

Press reviews

Wine Advocate

- 94 points -

September 2023 (Vintage 2022)

The 2022 The Vincent Survivor Vine Grenache is plush and fine at once. The febrile tannins that shape the fruit are very fine—pliability and ductility are the story. It has notes of graphite, black tea, strawberry, raspberry seed, exotic spice and black cherry. This is a beauty, and it really overdelivers for the price point ($25A UD!). Twenty percent of the wine goes into old oak. It's enough to support the tannins, but not enough to feel overtly oaky. Lovely, this comes from 1906 and 1901 plantings of Grenache, on spur-pruned trellis. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

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Wine Advocate

- 93 points -

July 2022 (Vintage 2021)

The 2021 The Vincent Survivor Vine Grenache is 100% Grenache and comes from vines that were planted in 1906 and 1901. This is textural, supple and spicy—not a complicated equation—and it's good. High quality across the board, but some severe damage in parts, too.

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