{"product_id":"2024-bondar-hope-springs-eternal-grenache","title":"2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Grenache","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe final piece in Bondar’s Hope Springs Eternal trifecta is a spectacular, deeply intellectual take on McLaren Vale Grenache.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the flagship Rayner Vineyard Grenache is highly prized, Andre went hunting for an even more elite expression of the variety. They found it in the heart of the Blewitt Springs \"purple patch\" - sourcing fruit from Sue Trott’s famous vineyard, planted to bush vines back in 1952. Grown on deep sand, this site is legendary for producing Grenache with an entirely different kind of gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2024 vintage was fermented with a high proportion of whole bunches (around 60%) using a incredibly gentle extraction technique. To keep the focus purely on the site’s exceptional fruit quality, it was matured in a careful mix of seasoned Austrian oak, ceramic eggs, and sandstone amphorae.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a monumental red that scored a massive 97 points from the Halliday Wine Companion. Marcus Ellis notes that instead of broad, easy pleasures, this is a wine of \"deep intrigue and savoury complexity.\" It bursts with wild raspberry, sour cherry, goji berry, and orange-poached rhubarb, all backed by notes of rosehip tea and moody florals. The massive whole-bunch component is brilliantly integrated, giving the wine a tense, structurally corded frame of silty, chewy tannins and bright acidity. It is an extraordinary, savoury, and age-worthy Grenache that showcases just how noble this variety can be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e97 points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Trott vineyard often throws darker fruits and moodier florals, and they’re here, yet the core remains red fruited and the structure is agreeably tense, a conduit for the twin charge of acidity and silty, chewy tannins. The high whole-bunch component builds that tannin, plus adds spice, but is also discreet. Wild raspberry, sour black and red cherry, redcurrant gel, goji, rosehip tea, orange poached rhubarb. It’s a wine of deep intrigue rather than easy pleasures, savoury, structurally corded, far from difficult, but a wine to age, as is the intent.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Bondar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44121892683819,"sku":"2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Grenache","price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2572\/9722\/files\/2024BondarHopeSpringsEternalGrenache.webp?v=1785115300","url":"https:\/\/www.differentdrop.com\/products\/2024-bondar-hope-springs-eternal-grenache","provider":"Different Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}