{"product_id":"2024-s-c-pannell-smart-vineyard-grenache","title":"2024 S.C. Pannell Smart Vineyard Grenache","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Smart Vineyard sits high in Clarendon, where McLaren Vale starts to thin out into cooler, windier hills. These dry-grown bush vines were planted by the late Bernie Smart almost seventy years ago, rooted in ancient siltstone soils that have been around for a casual 750 million years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Pannell has worked with this site for years, and it’s become one of his benchmark single-vineyard wines – a pure, structured expression of old-vine Grenache. This will sadly be the last release of this wine under the S.C. Pannell label as Steve focuses hid Grenache efforts on his own Little Branch vineyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fruit was hand-picked, fermented in old oak with daily pumpovers, then settled and aged in seasoned puncheons. No fining, no additions – just fruit, site and patience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine has real presence. Deep colour, a lifted nose of red fruits, spice and dried herbs, and a palate that’s silky but firm, layered and long. There’s energy, savouriness and depth in equal measure – a sign of both the site and the steady hand guiding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e96 points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quite some rosy perfume here in with cherry and raspberry, some liquorice richness and spice. It’s medium-bodied and offers a good amount of lush red fruit flavour that’s controlled by a superb set of graphite tannin... Going out with a bang. A great release.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e96 points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The wine is full bodied, rich and generous with a firm backing of tannin and a long and billowing aftertaste. A grenache of serious intent with terrific depth and ageing potential.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"S.C. Pannell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67642520993835,"sku":"2024 S.C. Pannell Smart Vineyard Grenache","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2572\/9722\/files\/2023S.C.PannellSmartVineyardGrenache.webp?v=1759967456","url":"https:\/\/www.differentdrop.com\/products\/2024-s-c-pannell-smart-vineyard-grenache","provider":"Different Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}