Collection: Grenache Noir & Cannonau

Grenache is widely known as a grape varietal often blended with other grapes, but it is also a fantastic variety on its own. 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 France, in Sardinia, 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 to full body to its distinctive fruit candy, chocolate and cinnamon flavours.