Gold Medal & 96/100 – McLaren Vale Wine Show 2024
Gold Medal – SAKURA Japan Women’s Wine Awards 2025
Gold Medal – James Halliday's Grenache Challenge 2024
Winery notes (2023 Vintage)
"Striking red fruits open to star anise, dried herbs and soft rose petal. A touch of warm candle wax and white strawberry compote add a little opulence to the Grenache archetype. A depth of umami (savoury) flavour and warm spices are enveloped in creamy red fruits. Fine, green tea-like tannin add direction and presence to the palate.
The fruit for the 2023 Farmer’s Heart Grenache are carefully selected from diverse sub regions within McLaren Vale. These vineyards boast an age range spanning from 26 to 130 years old. Notably, 48% of the blend originates from vines over a century old, while 74% is derived from those over 95 years in age."
93/100 Ned Goodwin MW, JamesSuckling.com, March 2024 (2023 Vintage)
“Very good, medium-bodied grenache, suggestive of a cooler, attenuated La Niña vintage. The tannins are long and refined, accentuated by a lower pH. Notes of Damson plums, rich strawberries, shrubs, licorice root and dried thyme. The finish is impressively persistent and refined. Excellent drinking.”
93/100 Tyson Stelzer, Top 250 Australian Wines of 2024, October 2024 (2023 Vintage)
“A delightful and bright grenache that captures the mood of this cool season in tangy raspberry fruits accented with all of grenache’s hallmark distinctiveness in rhubarb and dried herbs. Fine, saline tannins characterise McLaren Vale. Classy.”