2022 Spinifex Papillon
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Mostly cinsault, some grenache. It’s a light, mouthwatering, fresh style of red with its core of sweet raspberry and red licorice flavour surrounded by dry spice and roasted nut characters. In short, it’s delicious. Frisky but with flavour; sweet-fruited but with ample savoury nuance. It’s more-ish plus plus. Read more
Critic Reviews
Mostly cinsault, some grenache. It’s a light, mouthwatering, fresh style of red with its core of sweet raspberry and red licorice flavour surrounded by dry spice and roasted nut characters. In short, it’s delicious. Frisky but with flavour; sweet-fruited but with ample savoury nuance. It’s more-ish plus plus.
Far lighter and more red pastille than I recall. This said, it has been a while. I have an affectionate bind to this wine, having enjoyed an entire bottle solo, on an interminable train journey from Tokyo to Sapporo. A fleck of clove and star anise serves as backdrop to Seville orange zest, menthol and ume. A satisfying, thirst-quenching. light-weighted red, defiantly standing as an effortless replacement for a rosé. Drink now.
Technical Attributes
- Producer: Spinifex
- Varietal: Grenache Blend
- Region: Barossa Valley
- Alcohol: 13.5%
- Net volume: 750ml
- Vintage: 2022
- Cellar until 2030
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Style GuideLight Intense
Tasting Notes
Pete Schell’s Papillon was one of the first of the mod-Barossa wines to show that ripeness and depth of flavour needn’t come at the expense of freshness and vineyard expression. All these years later, it remains at the top of its game—if anything, it has never been in better form. This year’s wine is drawn from three exceptionally old, dry-grown, bush-vine sites as last year. Unlike the Grenache-dominant 2021, the 2022 leads with Cinsault, with 87% of the blend. The lion's share of the Cinsault is sourced from a plot of pre-Great-War vines (1910) in the friable, deep, red-clay soils of Ebenezer, while the balance is sourced from a 40-year-old sandy plot in Bethany. The Grenache component comes from a plot of vines planted around 1890 in Vine Vale that are rooted in deep, coarse sandy soil. All three parcels are fermented as whole berries and matured in a mix of old, large oak foudres and stainless-steel tanks. The fresh and moderate conditions of 2022 have delivered one of the most consumable renditions of Papillon we have seen in some years. Campbell’s notes sums the wine up nicely—delicious indeed.
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