Personalised Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard Elder Hill Grenache 2016 14% 750ml

Personalised Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard Elder Hill Grenache 2016 14% 750ml

The Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard covers a steep cut of country from the ridgetops above the village of Clarendon to the Onkaparinga River in the gorge below. Since its establishment in 1971, the Hickinbotham vineyard has become an integral part of Australia’s wine heritage, supplying fruit to produce many of Australia’s greatest wines. Breathing new life into this historic vineyard, Chris Carpenter and Peter Fraser are forging a new era of Hickinbotham’s prestigious legacy; building upon and honoring the vineyard’s acclaimed record.

The Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard was proudly one of Young Gun of Wines' 2022 Top 50 Vineyards in Australia.

AROMA
This is particularly sinuous in form, with elegant aromas of white pepper, dried fig, and quince paste.

PALATE
The wine’s remarkably intense, with savory flavours of anise and gunmetal; it has darker, perhaps more serious flavours than various types of cherry-to-raspberry common to many Grenache wines.

MATURATION
Rack and returned once over the maturation of 7.5 months prior to bottling. Matured in a selection of 5 year + Burgundy coopered barrels.

CELLARING POTENTIAL
While particularly elegant and appetising now—a style borne of its texture and lithe form as much as its flavours—it will grow more robust in time; and with this intensity of structure, the wine has quite some time ahead of it.