The Colonial EstateAlexander Laing Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and mature and hard cheese.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Alexander Laing Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache of The Colonial Estate in the region of Australie du Sud often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Alexander Laing Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache
Pairings that work perfectly with Alexander Laing Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache
Original food and wine pairings with Alexander Laing Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache
The Alexander Laing Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache of The Colonial Estate matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of beef tongue with pickle sauce or mushroom, comté and morteau sausage cake.
Details and technical informations about The Colonial Estate's Alexander Laing Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache.
Discover the grape variety: Blush seedless
Table grape with long clusters and seedless rose-red berries, thin skin and crunchy flesh, with a neutral sweet flavour. Early ripening. Very rarely vinified. Grown in California, Australia and Chile for export markets, prized for its attractive pink-red colour, pleasant neutral taste and excellent cold-storage life. American black seedless table grape variety bred for fresh consumption.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Alexander Laing Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache from The Colonial Estate are 2008, 2006, 2005, 2012 and 2009.
Informations about the The Colonial Estate
The The Colonial Estate is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 27 wines for sale in the of Barossa Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Barossa Valley
World icon of Australian Shiraz: powerful, silky, sun-drenched king red with notes of jammy blackberry, plum, dark chocolate, liquorice and a touch of sweet spice, enveloping tannins — Penfolds Grange and Henschke Hill of Grace as mythical bottles. Fleshy, spicy old-vine Grenache (up to 180 years), dense Mourvèdre, structured Cabernet as complement. GI northeast of Adelaide (~11,600 ha), hot dry climate, pre-phylloxera vines founded by Silesians in the 19th c.
The wine region of Australie du Sud
Cradle of the great Australian Shiraz: powerful, sun-drenched reds with notes of blackberry, candied plum, pepper, chocolate and eucalyptus, ample tannins and vibrant fruit (Barossa, McLaren Vale). Firm, minty Cabernet Sauvignon on Coonawarra (terra rossa). Dry, lemony Riesling from Clare and Eden Valley, straight and taut. Fresh Sauvignon and Chardonnay from Adelaide Hills.
The word of the wine: Pagan
See savagnin.
