Greenock Creek - 'Cornerstone' Grenache

1. Philip White

   30 jul. 2021

   94+/100

   Philip White

   tasted 14-18th June 2013
   Just between you and me, Michael thinks this is a good Grenache. He doesn�t say stuff like this very often. I think
   it�s a freakishly stunning quite ripe Grenache, but I�m prone to saying things like that a lot. It has a deep, transfixing unction about it, right from the first sniff.Raspberries, like you expect of ripe Grenache. Really rosy Turkish delight with plenty of confectioner�s sugar.
   Maraschino cocktail cherries. The faintest hint of acrid summer dust � just enough to prickle the nostrils, and set the salivaries dribbling. It�s one of those fragrances you can smell for days, imagining the woman you�d love to wear it. I�m not apologizing for being so gender s pecific. It IS feminine in the traditional manner. Much more Elizabeth Taylor than Gertrude Stein, if you get my
   perversely hetero drift. So let�s drink some of it . Even after four days, it�s still glowing with some sort of innerradiance that fills its cheery, glowing flesh. It�s creamy as much syrupy. Soft and curvy on the outside, but se verely determined and directed within. It does have appropriate acidity, but it�s not something you�d mention early in the piece. And there�s very finely ground bone china tannin,
   but that�s worth mentioning only the sense that if it wasn�t there I�d be talking about Elizabeth Taylor for another six pages and that tannin manages to very gradually put the brakes on. That�s its job now. In the long term, it�ll assure the wine lives a delicious decade in your cellar, maybe two. Or more. In the meantime wallow in those fleshy curves and all that salmonberry/cranberry/salmon
   roe delicacy as the fruits gradually give way to the wine�s more savoury lines and that tannin which is still trying after four days to bring the whole wonderful thing to an end.No chance. 94++ points. If you love delicacies like Turkish delight or salmon roe you�ll think I should have awarded two points more. If you try it with smoked salmon and capers you�ll think I should have given it the perfect hundred.

2. Parker

   30 jul. 2021

   90+/100

   Parker

   Pale ruby-purple and displaying a beautiful nose of kirsch, warm raspberries and roses with hints of white pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg, the full-bodied and youthful 2012 Cornerstone Grenache gives a good amount of red berry and spice flavors in the mouth without any heaviness and is backed by silky tannins and just enough acid before finishing long.

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