2024 Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine
2024 Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine

2024 Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine

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Bulman Type |Eden Valley |Grenache
Mark Bulman's second vintage of Grenache from the ancient and treasured Stonegarden Vineyard in Eden Valley. 96 points. Campbell Mattinson.
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"Buy this. You’ll never regret it."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

Mark Bulman, one of Australia’s finest Grenache minds, continues to shape a distinctive new chapter for the variety with Bulman Wines - and the 2024 Glen’s Vineyard Grenache is another standout.

Sourced from the ancient Stonegarden Vineyard (est. 1857) in Eden Valley, this wine speaks of place like few others. The 2024 season was warmer and drier than the previous year, and this shows in a wine with less overt spice but more inherent power. Picked on April 8th with 9% whole bunch, the fruit saw 14 days pre-ferment on skins, an 8-day ferment, and 55 days post-ferment skin contact before 182 days in sandstone amphora. The result is a wine of depth and tension.

Expect layers of blood orange, rhubarb, green cardamom, there’s a ferrous, amaro-like edge and ultra-fine tannins that unfurl with air, building persistence and nodding at excellent ageing potential. Glen Monaghan’s vineyard work and Mark’s thoughtful winemaking once again combine to deliver a modern Grenache with both heritage and energy.

A remarkable wine from a remarkable site - powerful yet fine-boned, and destined for greatness in the cellar. This is an incredible follow up to his debut release. We're onto a good thing here. Extremely limited.

97 points
"A gust of red florals, red and sour black cherry, bitter red aperitivo, ground warm spices, a rusty note, alpine-like herbal scents, ground fennel, and all so poised. There’s space to see the detail, underwritten by a quiet yet insistent current of old vine gravitas and soulful, site-specific resonance carried by intricately etched tannins. Stunning."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points
"I’ve gone through two bottles of this and half-way through the first, I started texting people. It’s one of those wines; it gets you excited; a few glasses in and you want to start shouting about it... We live in exquisite wine times, we must, because here it is... I really think that this wine is pretty sensational... On the first bottle I nearly got RSI from tipping the bottle up, begging for one drop more."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

97 points - "From the Stonegarden vineyard, first planted in 1857 (this from original vines, reworked over time). The '24 vintage was Glen Monaghan’s last, having since sold the site to Rockford. The second release, and this bottling is already a high watermark for lithe, refined and detailed modern Barossa grenache. A gust of red florals, red and sour black cherry, bitter red aperitivo, ground warm spices, a rusty note, alpine-like herbal scents, ground fennel, and all so poised. There’s space to see the detail, underwritten by a quiet yet insistent current of old vine gravitas and soulful, site-specific resonance carried by intricately etched tannins. Stunning." - Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points - "As per last year, I’m scoring both the Bulman grenache releases the same. They are of equal quality. But some are more equal than others.

I’ve gone through two bottles of this and half-way through the first, I started texting people. It’s one of those wines; it gets you excited; a few glasses in and you want to start shouting about it. If this was the house wine at LinkedIn, all the doom-and-gloom talk about the state of the wine industry here and abroad would stop in an instant. We live in exquisite wine times, we must, because here it is. The licorice notes here are black, the earth notes are red, the spices and tobacco-like characters have a russet glow. The Eden Valley is a great place. They have boulders there, great big rocks, jutting. These rocks give the wines a perfume, a rise, a loveliness, an endless hello. It’s the smile you can never say no to. In this wine the raspberry notes feel bright; the violet notes are fresh; the tannin is a soft blanket on stone. I really think that this wine is pretty sensational. Put it this way: with the Gary’s I’m 95/96, and fell on the latter. On this Glen’s I’m 96/97. On the first bottle I nearly got RSI from tipping the bottle up, begging for one drop more.

Buy this. You’ll never regret it." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

Customer Reviews

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    George T.
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    11 months ago
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    2023 Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Deserves that 97 point review

    Fantastic wine, cherry and raspberry, firm tannins, special wine.

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Vineyard established in 1857. Thin loam over a substrate of red-brown clay covering sandstone with gold bearing quartz veins. Micaceous schist fragments scattered throughout. 390m Altitude. In the rain shadow of the Mount Lofty ranges on a plateau looking easterly over the Murray Mallee.
Glen Monaghan grew the Grenache for the 2024 Vintage.
2024 Glen’s Vineyard Grenache – Picked on 8/4/24. 9% whole bunch. 14 Days on skins pre-ferment, 8 day ferment, 55 days on skins post ferment. 182 days in a sandstone amphora.
The 2024 vintage was much drier and warmer than 2023. The resultant wines have less spice but more inherent power. Less whole bunch was used to push the fruit and tannin forward.
Built by quarrying into the hill and using the extracted rocks to build its walls, the original Stonegarden Winery sits proudly on the vineyard to this day. One small segment of wall within the winery has not been rendered and remains exposed. Over the winter a damp creeps into the wall and a small garden of maidenhair fern grow from the rock, creating a ‘stone garden’.  The label shows a silhouette of a maidenhair fern sitting within subtly embossed rocks from the stone wall.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Grenache
Country Australia
Region Eden Valley
Australian State SA
Feature High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 96
97
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Cork

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