Our Fathers Smart Vineyard Old Vine Grenache 2024 (6x75cl) (Arrives December 2025)

The Smart Vineyard, in the Clarendon sub-region of McLaren Vale, has become one of the most iconic vineyards in Australia and is the source of Thistledown's Charming Man Grenache - recipient of Grenache of the Year from Halliday last year. In 2024 we had the opportunity to select some fruit for Our Fathers and this remarkable wine is the result. Scoring 97pts from the Halliday Wine Companion and described by Marcus Ellis:

"From the iconic Smart vineyard. This was a parcel of fruit that Giles Cooke had access to in '24 but felt it didn’t interlock with those destined for This Charming Man. Not a quality thing – just how it looked on the bench. However, it screams Smart – pale in the glass, perfumed yet savoury, riffing through wild red berries, dried cherry, orange peel, white pepper, concrete dust, warm terracotta, dried rose and fennel seed. On the palate, that site – and maker – imprint is equally emphatic, with such fine, silty tannin, pristinely ripe yet delightfully sour-fringed fruit, calm precision and a racy, long-echoing conclusion. Oh, and it can’t be glossed over that all the profits go to charity. Just so exceptional, and on so many levels."

This is a one off bottling and pre-orders will be taken for delivery in December 2025