Australian old-vine Grenache – the next chapter

When I first wrote about McLaren Vale winery Yangarra here in 2015, winemaker Peter Fraser and his team were a couple of years into experimenting with large ceramic egg-shaped vessels to ferment and mature the fruit from their 70-year-old Grenache vines.

At the time, such vessels were still a relative novelty in Australian wineries. But now, when you visit a winemaker in McLaren Vale or the Barossa Valley who’s serious about producing fine, nuanced, new-wave...