{"product_id":"bondar-single-vineyard-masterclass-pack","title":"Bondar Single Vineyard Masterclass Pack","description":"\u003cp\u003eHope Springs Eternal is Bondar's brand-new, ultra-premium project with a vision to craft elegant, age-worthy wines that can go toe-to-toe with the best in the country from the absolute best vineyard sites in South Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis tier is strictly allocated and usually kept entirely for their own wine club members, but we've managed to secure a tiny look at these 2024 releases. Because quantities are so minuscule, we are offering them exclusively as a complete three-pack featuring the 95+ point Chardonnay, 96-point Shiraz, and 97-point Grenache. There are just 24 packs available, so if you want a piece of Bondar history for the cellar, you’ll need to move fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Chardonnay\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Grenache\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Shiraz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Chardonnay\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHope Springs Eternal is a highly anticipated new project for Andre and Selina Bondar, designed with a singular focus: to craft elite, age-worthy wines from the absolute best vineyard sites in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the inaugural 2024 Chardonnay, they headed up to the high-altitude Bowyer Ridge vineyard in Lobethal, sitting at over 500 meters above sea level. This is a micro-production release sourced from just three select French oak barriques. The winemaking is beautifully stripped back and unadorned - free of flashy cellar tricks - allowing the cool-climate fruit to speak for itself, though it did undergo full malolactic fermentation to weave a subtle creaminess into its structural frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a tightly coiled powerhouse that has already scooped a massive 95+ points from the Halliday Wine Companion. It's a pristine, drive-y wine built for the long haul. Give it a year in the cellar to fully stretch its legs, and watch it evolve beautifully over the next decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e95+ points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This needs a little time, with winemaking tricks pleasingly absent, but the acidity is coiled, crimping in flavour, of which there is ample, and texture. Time will heal. Cool nectarine, moving into ripeness, lemon, green pear, a stone fruit-kernel nuttiness, fig leaf, faint traces of oak spice. There’s a little creaminess, a crème brûlée note, appealingly fine pithiness and then the acid drive. The length is impressive. Just give this a year or so to bring out its best – it will be interesting to see its arc.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.differentdrop.com\/products\/2023-bondar-hope-springs-eternal-chardonnay\" title=\"2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Chardonnay\"\u003eRead More\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Grenache\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.differentdrop.com\/products\/2024-bondar-hope-springs-eternal-grenache\" title=\"2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Grenache\"\u003eRead More\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Shiraz\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second installment in Bondar’s elite Hope Springs Eternal micro-project is a spectacular, single-barrel release that marks a career high for winemaker Andre Bondar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fruit comes from a prized, elevated block of 1971-planted vines at the certified biodynamic Hickinbotham Vineyard in Clarendon. Grown on red soils studded with ironstone, this cool-climate site yields fruit of incredible focus. Andre fermented this mostly as whole bunches and gave it a patient, two-year élevage in a single, old, thick-walled 600L demi-muid. Total production is a tiny 600 bottles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScoring 96 points from the Halliday Wine Companion, reviewer Marcus Ellis notes its stunning refinement and compact structure. It is packed with dark plum, blackberry, sour cherry, and a graphitic, granitic mineral quality, all backed by tobacco leaf and dried herbs. It is a brooding, detailed masterpiece built for the long haul. If you’re cracking one early, give it plenty of air to watch those complex layers unfurl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e96+ points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There’s a compactness here, a finely packed spiciness, a graphitic and almost granitic mineral quality, dried herbs, tobacco and a twiggy snap in the background. Refinement reigns, like the grenache in the range, with time the key, though abundant air reveals layer after layer of subtle detail. A wine of real cellar potential.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.differentdrop.com\/products\/2024-bondar-hope-springs-eternal-shiraz\" title=\"2024 Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Shiraz\"\u003eRead More\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bondar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44148741406763,"sku":"Bondar Single Vineyard Masterclass Pack","price":234.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2572\/9722\/files\/BondarSingleVineyardMasterclassPack.webp?v=1780449079","url":"https:\/\/www.differentdrop.com\/products\/bondar-single-vineyard-masterclass-pack","provider":"Different Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}