Wine Pilot: 2024 Grenache, 94 pts

This was a vintage with some challenges, being quite cool and wet with a mild summer before a little burst of heat at the end succeeded in ripening the fruit and just firming the tannins to give the wine support and structure. Highly perfumed aromas of cherry and raspberry, with a faint hint of white pepper. Quite light in color, but there’s still good richness in the fruit. It has a certain succulence and richness with sweet cherry and plummy characters emerging. The fruit was basket-pressed, to aged oak, five hundred liter puncheons, and a small amount was matured in a concrete tank. Marked by fine tannins, integrated subtle oak, and delicious sweet fruit.