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Thistledown - This Charming Man Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache
Clarendon Mclaren Vale South Australia 2018 6x 75cl Bottles

On a beautiful hillside in the Clarendon sub-region of McLaren Vale, three generations of the Smart family have devoted their lives to Grenache. Decades have passed where precious few valued their crop and yet they endured. That this remarkable vineyard has sustained is down to one man, Bernard Smart and this wine pays homage to this charming man. From a near-perfect vintage for the site, this wine displays muscular yet elegant silky black fruits coupled with deep, rich, warming spices, hints of violet, mineral and black cherry.
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On a beautiful hillside in the Clarendon sub-region of McLaren Vale, three generations of the Smart family have devoted their lives to Grenache. Decades have passed where precious few valued their crop & yet they endured. That this remarkable vineyard has sustained is down to one man, Bernard Smart & this wine pays homage to this charming man. From a near-perfect vintage for the site, this wine displays muscular yet elegant silky black fruits coupled with deep, rich, warming spices, hints of violet, mineral & black cherry.

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Wine - An alcoholic drink made from fermented grapes.
Black - A colour which does not emit any colour of the spectrum. Black absorbs all frequencies of the spectrum.
mineral - A naturally occurring solid chemical substance.
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