2024 Aphelion Callow Grenache Blanc 6 Pack

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Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

From the Yangarra vineyard, whole-bunch pressed, with 60% fermented in steel, and the balance in neutral and third-fill French oak barriques and a new Stockinger hogshead. Poached apple, Packham pear, fresh ginger, custard apple, melon, quince, unripe nectarine, a little brown spice. It’s open and textural, marshalled by the oak component and fine phenolics to give this a dryly invigorating finish.

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Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

Grenache Blanc from the Yangarra Vineyard. Pear, honeydew melon, some aromatic herbs and spice. It’s a gently chalky affair with some pithy bitterness, pear and again that perfume of herbs, a little bit waxy too, and finishes quite dry with grip and a slightly saline aftertaste. Nice wine. A textural style.

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David Sly - Decanter

As a leader among the first Australian producers to embrace Grenache Blanc, Rob Mack captures textural muscle in the complex mid-palate, giving a roiling mouthfeel to the long, luscious flavours. Pithy citrus notes signal a long, clean acid line that supports lively fruit notes of fresh pear over Fuji apple, all through to a finish that tingles gentle spice. More complex than you’d suspect, and likely to develop nicely from mid-term cellaring.