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ALKINA Polygon 3 Grenache, Barossa Valley 2019 Bottle
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ALKINA Polygon 3 Grenache, Barossa Valley 2019 Bottle
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Alkina Polygon 3 Barossa Valley Grenache
Polygon 3 Grenache fruit grown on a propitiously sited old vine limestone outcrop, flecked with schist and iron. The plot is a meagre 0.274 hectares. Biodynamic farming, a given. 50 percent whole bunch imparts briar and a skein of lithe tannins, embellished with a natural fermentation in a concrete tulip, before 15 months in 10 year-old wood. This is Grenache for Pinot lovers! Transparent. Seville orange, turmeric and scents of the Moroccan souk. Red fruit allusions, too, beamed long by a mellifluous flow of juicy acidity melded to that immaculate veil of tannin, precise, pixelated and succulent. Almost sandy of feel.
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Expert Review
Decanter
Delicate yet formidable, this wine’s dense, multiple layers of complex texture and flavour speak eloquently. There’s fresh raspberry and graphite, rhubarb and red earth, dark plum and ironstone, and a suggestion of sage and nutmeg among blackberry bite, caressed by fine tannins. Sourced from only 200 vines planted in the 1950s, this 0.27ha micro-terroir boasts red-brown earth over limestone with traces of iron, providing fruit of rare depth and concentration. More sensuous and ethereal that its raw-boned sibling Alkina Polygon 5, but their common characteristic is extraordinary length of the purest flavours.
98 points, David Sly, Decanter (January 2022)
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Dave Brookes
I've been blown away by the grenache from Alkina – we're edging towards the Australian version of Rayas here. The Polygon 3 subplot is just .27ha in size with around 200 vines; limestone and schist it is. If you get a chance, head to their website and check out the deep dive into terroir that is the 'Polygon Project'. Whole bunches (70%) aged for six months in a 10-year-old puncheon. Airy, detailed and ethereal with clarity of both aromatics and fruit. Plums, ironstone, rose petals, fine spices, gingerbread, rhubarb, sage and earth; tannins powdery and acidity fine and precise. Just beautiful drinking and it will only improve. 490 bottles and 50 magnums made.
97 points, Wine Companion (December 2022)