Aphelion Grenache Hickinbotham 2022
Red
McLaren Vale, Australia
7.8
WineSaint
Dense, brooding Grenache that fights you at every turn. Cherry compote and dark earth struggle beneath a wall of stem-derived tannins that grip hard and refuse to let go. The Hickinbotham vineyard delivers serious concentration, but right now it's all locked up behind that formidable structure. Needs a decade minimum to find harmony.
cherry compotedark earthstemsphenolic grip
Label
Aphelion
→Aphelion is a McLaren Vale producer building a focused body of work around single-vineyard Grenache and the occasional left-field white, with named sites doing the differentiation.