YALUMBA SAMUEL'S COLLECTION BAROSSA BUSH VINE GRENACHE
Barossa Valley, Australia

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93 points - James Suckling
90 points - Wine Spectator
90 points - Wine Enthusiast

This light-bodied and highly aromatic wine, from Australia's most historic family-owned winery, showcases the bright Barossa Grenache flavours at their best.

Rooted in 170 years of history, Samuel's Collection celebrates Yalumba's founder Samuel Smith and his spirit of embracing provenance and giving back to the land. The 2020 Samuel's Collection Barossa Bush Vine Grenache shows the bright Barossa Grenache flavours at its best. The fragrance is saturated with brooding plum red fruits, dark cherries and perfumed berries. This is a defined wine showing the richness and concentration of the vintage. The palate is richly textured, fleshy, round and supple, with a red juiciness that merges into velvety tannins. Enjoy with braised pork, roasted eggplant, or roast duck.

Established in 1849, Yalumba is Australia’s most historic family owned wine company. For six generations, Yalumba has remained fiercely independent and extremely progressive through the generational ownership by the Hill-Smith family. Yalumba’s longevity and success is a result of patience, collaboration and progressive thinking. There is foresight to embrace the natural terroir to craft wines with individual character and a sense of purpose, a spirit to reinvest in the land upon which it operates and knowledge to behave as a leader in the industry. It is committed to sharing stories of provenance gathered over more than 168 years of history of family winemaking.

Barossa is arguably the single most famous wine region in Australia. Barossa includes both Barossa Valley and Eden Valley, making it one of the only areas in Australia to have neighbouring warm and cool climate growing conditions. Yalumba is privileged to have access to some of the oldest vineyards in the world in Barossa Valley, including 1889 bush vine Grenache and 1908 Shiraz. At the inner sanctum of Coonawarra, on the prized terra rossa soil, lies Yalumba’s Coonawarra estate, The Menzies Vineyard. Comprised predominantly of Cabernet Sauvignon vines, this single vineyard is committed to growing premium quality fruit reflecting distinctive varietal characters of the region. Wrattonbully’s cool climate, plentiful high quality artesian water and well drained terra rossa soils led wine companies to plant large areas of mainly red grape varieties.