MMAD Vineyard Grenache 2024

98 POINTS

Shanteh Wale - Winepilot

MMAD red wines have a whole new groove and by that I mean they are now sealed under Diam closure, and what a win that is for those that are lucky enough to own a Coravin because this sure is a wine to be savoured each and every sip. Holy heavenly aromas batman, this is seduction in a glass. Tea rose, sweet pea and framboise rise from the glass, followed by an evocative turn into a Chinese tea shop: oolong, burdock root and fine spice. There’s an otherworldly finesse on the palate, where silty, time-worn tannins settle into place with quiet authority.  Acidity pulls back like a gathering tide before surging forward with freshness and energy, giving the wine both tension and lift. The fruit and shape reminds you of its Grenache but not like anything you have had before. This is truly special in every way. What to drink with this, well stewed game meats would work nicely but I would be inclined to go for Chinese pork floss milk buns whilst you fall into a soft couch in total happiness. Remarkable wine.

97 POINTS

Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

Now bottled under diam, a preference based on tasting trials. This is in excellent form – duskily floral, mineral, with old-vine depth and balance, silky, plush in the right way through the mid-palate, bunch notes adding ultra-subtle spice and chewy tannin to the sandy, silty skin tannin. There’s something about the fruit, off those ’39 vines on sandy soils, that is so distinctive, with deep blue and purple florals, sultry and spicy, dark red fruits, ripe but weightless. There are also blue fruit tones and a maritime, iodine quality, an iron oxide note present but not dominant. The aroma is showstopping but not showy. In fact, it took me some time to taste the wine, such is the allure; but the palate confirms that this is likely the best release yet.

95 POINTS

Jeni Port - Winepilot

Grenache is having more than a moment, what we are seeing is a veritable downpour of great wines. Here is one Grenache that goes deeper into exploring the grape variety, seeking out the variety’s darker herbal side and it’s an intriguing taste. Immediately captivating in aromas of dark cherry, plum, aniseed, baking spice and toast. Great depth of flavour runs smooth across the palate, quite elegant in execution, with a rush of wild herbs a central feature. Deep set black cherry, plum, wild herbs, chocolate, vanilla are folded in and spread across balanced tannins. Great drinking now and into the future.

95 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

Blewitt Springs, 1939 plantings. Sealed with a DIAM cork now. Cherry, raspberry, a dried flower and aniseed perfume, spice, nori and salted pistachio. It’s medium-bodied, red fruit and cherry, a fine sandy and dusty tannin grip, black olive and samphire, fresh acidity, with a crisp, saline finish of excellent length. Strawberry dusted with pepper carries on the aftertaste. Distinctive wine. A very good iteration of this wine for me.