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THISTLEDOWN WINES Thorny Devil Grenache, McLaren Vale 2022 Bottle
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THISTLEDOWN WINES Thorny Devil Grenache, McLaren Vale 2022 Bottle
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Thistledown Wines Thorny Devil Grenache, McLaren Vale
Thistledown Wines are a leading name in the who’s-who of Australia’s modern grenache movement out of some of South Australia’s finest regions. Thorny Devil Grenache is sourced from several bush trained plots. It is an excellent introduction to Thistledown’s superlative Grenache production, demonstrating great fruit purity and texture, with blueprint McLaren Vale spice and lifted aromatics.
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Expert Review
Huon Hooke
Deep purple-red colour; the bouquet has raspberry and blackcurrant pastille aromas, complexed by gentle spice notes. The wine is medium-full bodied and laced with a delicious core of sweet fruit shrouded in emery-like tannins that impart pleasing structure. Good length: a very stylish modern grenache that can be enjoyed young.
95 points, The Real Review (January 2023)
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Ned Goodwin MW
The 2022 vintage was a Euro-styled year of poise with plenty of fruit weight and immense freshness, although it has not reached the same lofty heights as the 2021 vintage. Savory. I'll take that over obvious sweetness any day. The first cab from the premier rank. A sub-regional blend limited to old, dry-grown bush vines. Varying degrees of whole bunches. A number of picking windows, too, to embellish freshness and enough weight. Ambient fermentation. One would be hard-pressed to find a better wine than this for the price. Kirsch, ume, cranberry, bergamot and a scape of pixelated tannin, sandy of feel, directing length. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
94 points, JamesSuckling.com (July 2023)
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Erin Larkin
This is a super little wine. The 2022 Thorny Devil Grenache is spicy, supple and shaped, as all the Thistledown Grenaches are, by ductile, flowing tannins in the mouth. This has shape and form, but it is also a plump, cushioned little number that gives all manner of pleasure. It's a generous, smiling little thing, delicious. There are notes of blood, raspberry, red licorice and ferrous. It is sapid as all get up. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
93 points, Wine Advocate (September 2023)