Torbreck Harris Grenache 2024
The Harris vineyard, planted to Grenache in 2002, celebrates the traditional bush vine growing methods of the Barossa Valley pioneering grape growers.
This single site Grenache comes from the Harris Vineyard located in Marananga on the western ridge of the Barossa Valley. Grown as bush vines in iron stone rich brown loam and clay soils the resulting wine is highly expressive with fragrant aromatics, tension and balance.
A bush vine is a grapevine without a trellis and is pruned to form a “goblet” shape, to separate the bunches of fruit. Low to the ground these vines benefit from the warmth of the earth to create an ideal ripening condition. Grenache is best suited to this bush vine growing technique because of the upright orientation of its shoots.
Harris Grenache is a single-vineyard wine from low-yielding bush vines in the Marananga district of the Barossa Valley. Grapes are hand-harvested, destemmed, and fermented in small open-top fermenters. After basket pressing, the wine is matured in 4,500L seasoned French oak foudres for approximately 18 months.
Bottled unfined and unfiltered, Harris Grenache is a precise and site-driven expression, showing purity, lifted red fruit, and finely woven tannins.
Game meats or rich vegetarian dishes such as eggplant parmigiana.
Deep crimson with profound red and blueberry fruits reminiscent of Marananga Grenache from ironstone soils and deep clays. Overt fruits rise from the glass such as wild raspberry, mulberry and dried red currants balanced by savoury accents of sarsaparilla, star anise, liquorice, sandalwood and wild thyme.
The palate is round, generous, yet firm with tight long tannins from low yielding old vine Grenache.
