2024 Willunga 100 Blind Spot Vineyard Grenache

97 pts
From Willunga’s own estate vineyard, this is a plush and earthy Grenache with vibrant mixed berry fruit, chewy tannins, and real old-vine presence.

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The Blind Spot Vineyard is Willunga 100’s home turf - a 15-acre block of dry-grown bush vines planted more than 50 years ago in the deep sands of Blewitt Springs. These soils, flecked with ironstone and underpinned by clay, are Grenache’s sweet spot, producing wines that hum with brightness yet carry a savoury, earthy undertow.

The 2024 season gave the vines exactly what they needed: a cool start that slowed ripening and built freshness, followed by the warmth of summer to fill out the fruit. The result is a beautifully balanced Grenache that feels both vibrant and grounded. Raspberry, cherry and redcurrant leap from the glass, lifted by gentle spice, pepper and a touch of dried herb. The palate is supple and flowing, with fine sandy tannins and a lick of earth and ironstone through the finish.

Fermented in open vats and matured almost entirely in stainless steel, with just a whisper of old oak for texture, this is Grenache at its most expressive and honest – bright, elegant and full of character. A textbook Blewitt Springs release and a standout for value.

"It’s another beautiful wine from the exceptional 2024 suite. Stunning."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)

 Marcus Ellis

Marcus Ellis

Halliday Wine Companion 97 Points

From the home Blewitt Springs vineyard on Maslin Sands over ironstone and clay; 55-year-old bush vines; destemmed, 10 days on skins; matured in steel (75%) and an old puncheon. Like all the single vineyard wines, this is charmingly light in colour, with this initially reserved in aromatics. But air brings those out rapidly, bursting with dusky floral notes, marasca cherry and Middle Eastern spices, the key here, and across the wines, is an essential savouriness, a lack of poppy ease. And that’s very much to the good. The three are nuanced in their making, but not dissimilar in elaboration, the theme an absence of artefact, yielding a clear delineation between cuvées. Expressly red fruited, with a fragrant muskiness, a headiness of sultry fragrance, and a palate built on finely tooled tannin and clean acidity, it’s another beautiful wine from the exceptional 2024 suite. Stunning.

The 2024 vintage had early season cooler conditions that allowed the fruit to mature relatively slowly through the early season.
This was a good platform to enable the fruit to maintain its’ brightness during the heat of January and February resulting in good fruit expression and tannin structure.

Blind Spot Vineyard (15 Acre Block) - 95% Stainless Steel, 5% from an aged Puncheon

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Grenache
Country Australia
Region McLaren Vale
Australian State SA
Feature High Score
Vegan
Women in Wine
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 97
Alcohol 14%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Screw Cap

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