Collection: Grenache & Friends

Grenache is widely known as a grape varietal often blended with other grapes in order to achieve a superior overall product, but it is also produced as a single varietal. At one time the second most planted grape in the world, it remains one of the most prolific – in Spain, where it is known as Garnacha, it was for a long time the country’s most common red wine grape.

Grenache requires a hot, dry climate – explaining its overwhelming presence in Spain as well as Southern Rhone, Languedoc-Roussillon, here in Australia and in inland California’s San Joaquin Valley. It was, in fact, Australia’s most planted red wine grape variety until the Shiraz usurped it. A lighter, translucent colour belies its higher alcohol content, which gives a medium body to its distinctive fruit candy and cinnamon taste.

This body and alcohol content combined with a lack of harsh tannins has seen Grenache widely used to add body and sweetness to other wines, as well as forming a base for fortified and port-style wines. Now, however, you can easily buy fine Grenache-based wines online which feature red fruit flavours and subtle spice note, with more aged wines taking on subtle leather and tar flavours. The finest of these are highly coveted – premium Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines fetch over $500, while California’s top Grenache can command similar prices.

At Annandale Cellars, we offer both easy-drinking and complex Grenache blends, as well as everything in between. Call us on +61 (2)96601947 or send us an email at shop@acellars.com.au so our friendly, passionate staff can tell you more about buying fine Grenache wine online.

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