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)

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.