2024 Garagiste Le Stagiaire Grenache Blanc

93 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

This is delicious. Plenty of fresh pears and baked apple, some lemony flavour too, aniseed, a waft of white pepper, fresh basil, lots of spice notes. It’s refreshing, the palate almost soft and giving, the acidity lively. A drink for today, and don’t mind if I do.

93 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

“Barney goes to Heathcote”, which would be a good name for a pop-up book for children, if it were not so frightening.  Aaarrgh, there’s Adam Foster! Mum! (j/k Adam). Good perfume, salted pistachio, pear and fresh apricot, and kind of waxy too. It has flesh and plenty of apple and pear flavour, again that saline thing, light dusty texture, some cool mint in with the waxy orchard fruit, hard steeped chamomile tea, preserved lemon, and a finish of good length. Very good wine. Texture and a slippery feel, but still keeps itself fresh.

93 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

Good perfume, salted pistachio, pear and fresh apricot, and kind of waxy too. It has flesh and plenty of apple and pear flavour, again that saline thing, light dusty texture, some cool mint in with the waxy orchard fruit, hard steeped chamomile tea, preserved lemon, and a finish of good length. Very good wine. Texture and a slippery feel, but still keeps itself fresh.