Reviews

Reviews of the 2024 Mencia:

Silver Medal, 2025 Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show.

90 Points, Silver Medal, 2025 McLaren Vale Wine Show.

“Top Five Young Gun of Wine Deep Dive: Australia’s Best Mencia” July 2025

91 points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, June 2025:
This is the first mencía release from estate Sand Road vineyard vines planted in 2021 to Christies Beach Formation: alluvial sand, silty clay and gravel. This was gently extracted over 12 days, then saw eight months in neutral oak. There’s a bit of tannin here, pithy, skinsy, teeth-coating tannin. Not too much, but certainly needing food. The wine is generally pulpy and bright, floral with juicy wild berries, blackberry pastille, raspberry coulis, a little tar and cherry cola, kind of slurpy and fresh, but again demanding food, with a fine seam of acidity also guiding one to the table.