2021 Worlds Apart Someone Great Grenache
McLaren Vale, SA
A light yet profound McLaren Vale Grenache full of perfume and panache
$60.00
Fragrant, piercing, long and fine, a beautiful, fine-boned red of levity, freshness and bitey, thirst-quenching tang. F
Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
About the Wine
Grenache loves McLaren Vale, and it seems that punters definitely love McLaren Vale Grenache. The Worlds Apart Someone Great arose from a desire to create something lighter than the usually full-bodied offerings there. The result is lots of freshness and acidity, red fruit characters, and some tannin grip, without the high level of alcohol.
This is a wine that can cellar for several years before it'll be showing its best, although if opening it in the short term, decant it and let it breathe for a few hours – like you might do for a heftier McLaren Vale Grenache – and then enjoy the spoils of your patience.
About Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart is the small adventurous label of winemaker Louis Schofield and chef Hannah Jeffery.
Louis was the protege and assistant winemaker of the late Taras Ochota. From the Ochota Barrels wine studio Louis sharpened his winemaking skills and attacks the World Apart wines with a similar low-intervention but high attention to detail philosophy.
The grapes come from small local growers who farm with a sustainable ideology. These are small-batch, high-energy wines that pop out of the glass with loads of personality.
Adelaide Hills, SA
From the Producer
The goal was to make something ethereally light bodied but with profound depth, tannin, and intense freshness. In the vein of Pfifferling, Leroy, rather than powerful Vale red. That juxtaposition of explosive perfume and structure in an incredibly light frame. Layers. Taking it to the extreme. This requires decanting, not just for the wack of natural sediment, but because it is a very tightly wound wine that will take years to show its technicolor spectrum of fruit. It’s austere, uncompromising and demanding but the reward is there for the dedicated drinker.
Blend : Grenache (100%)
ABV : 10.8%
Closure : Cork
Drink Until : 2026
Bottle Size : 750ml
Critic Reviews
"From a thicket of older, Blewitt Springs vines this is grenache that comes in off the vineyard on the Mac Forbes-Joe Holyman picking time line, ending up at a light weight 10.8% alcohol. Extended maceration does the deed for structure and tension in the wine. Lively Louis Schofield suggests its an homage to Pfifferling (L’Anglore) and Leroy, per se, in the vein of light weight but very architectural and perfumed wines. Hits the spot. Pale garnet colour. Scents of pickled plums and rose hip tea, Earl Grey tea; similar flavours. Light weight, indeed, a sheath of silty tannins lending tug and chew, nervy acidity all perky and crunchy through the core. Fragrant, piercing, long and fine, a beautiful, fine-boned red of levity, freshness and bitey, thirst-quenching tang. Fantastic drinking and I reckon this one will do a treat in the cellar. Stellar, in its filigreed way." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
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