Affinity 2024 Grenache Mourvèdre is a key flagstone wine for us. We are known for our Grenache and Mourvèdre, and our Affinity is a perfect example of complex, delicious wine that is much greater than the sum of it's premium parts.

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"This blend keeps improving through successive vintages, with less width and more sustained tension in the flavour profile due to Mack’s keen attention to detail." - David Sly for Decanter

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Meet the Affinity

Variety: An 85/15 blend of McLaren Vale Grenache and Mourvèdre.

Summary: A blend of single vineyard McLaren Vale Grenache and single vineyard Willunga South Mourvèdre results in a wine with oodles of complexity. Good roundness of fruit flavour on the mid palate leads to a savoury finish with powdery tannin.

Tasting Note: A beautiful and crisp savoury edge runs through this wine from aroma to palate. The whole bunch ferment characters appear in the form of spicy herbal complexity whilst the youthful Grenache component keeps the feel fresh and vibrant. Savoury, spicy, complex.

Goes With Food: Matches well to lighter red meat dishes such as venison or rare lamb, but is equally well suited to a vegetarian lasagne. Versatility is a key component of this wine.

Goes With Cheese: An aged cloth bound cheddar or mid strength parmesan matches the subtle tannin profile of The Affinity.

Goes With Music: PJ Harvey – Down By The Water.

Goes With Life: Laughter and languid lounging with loved ones.

Serve At: 18 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink: Ready to drink now, but will continue evolving through to 2031.

Vineyard: The Grenache fruit comes from the Romano family’s single vineyard in the Seaview sub-district of McLaren Vale. The Mourvèdre is from the Lacey family’s single vineyard in Willunga South..

Winemaking: Both parcels of wine that make up this blend were fermented and aged separately before blending. A portion of stems was used in the Grenache ferment. Some pre-ferment cold soak was used with the Mourvèdre portion. The wine was then matured for ten months in neutral French puncheons and hogsheads prior to bottling in February 2025.

Unfiltered | Unfined | Vegan

ABV%: 14.2%

Production: 220 half-dozen produced under screwcap.

Accolades:

94 points David Sly for Decanter

93 point Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

"A silky blend of Grenache with Mourvèdre provides an intriguing embrace of alluring elegance with backbone and drive...Instead, the pretty wild raspberry perfume of Grenache rises high from the glass and provides a sweet opening kiss, before the palate opens to show deep red fruits and a hint of smooth blackberry, embraced by the mild spice and firm structure of supple Mourvèdre. This blend keeps improving through successive vintages, with less width and more sustained tension in the flavour profile due to Mack’s keen attention to detail." - David Sly for Decanter

"85/15% grenache from Seaview/mourvèdre from Whites Valley; 15% whole bunch. Strawberry, raspberry and morello cherry, intensely rendered – though with plenty of airspace, transparency and flow – along with scrubby herbs, dried bay, turned earth, blood orange, cracked pepper and some darker spices. It has volume but not weight on the palate, the tannins finely wrought yet chewy, a burst of freshness to close." - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

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Grenache is our specialty. This pack curated by Rob "Mr Grenache" Mack is the best way for you to discover the breadth of flavour possible from Grenache grown in McLaren Vale.

Each six pack includes:

1 x bottle Welkin Grenache 2024 RRP $28
1 x bottle Callow Grenache Blanc 2024 RRP $42 
1 x bottle Confluence Grenache 2024  RRP $42 each
2 x bottle Affinity Grenache Mourvedre 2024 RRP $42
1 x bottle Rapture 2022 RRP $150

RRP $346. Special pack price: $310. Save $36 and 10%!

(N.B: 12 bottle cases contain double these amounts).

Each of our Grenache wines has its’ own distinct personality.

Why not gather some friends and open all five different bottles at once?

About The Wines

Welkin Grenache 2024 is a juicy and vibrant wine with outrageous aromatics. Designed to be enjoyed immediately, with goat chevre, tapas or as an aperitif on its' own.

Callow Grenache Blanc 2024 Our love affair with Grenache now extends to it's white wine form. Intense citrus and spice aromatics. A textural edge provides a food friendly aspect. Cinnamon and nutmeg spice complement the nashi pear and stone fruit flavours. 

Confluence 2024 Grenache is the coming together of premium Grenache from a number of vineyards in the sandy soil dress-circle of Blewitt Springs. It showcases the best of McLaren Vale's elegant, savoury Grenache style.

Affinity 2024 Grenache Mourvèdre Here premium barrels of Brini Grenache and Lacey Mourvèdre are brought together to make a truly rounded and balanced wine with juicy acid, powdery tannin and the best of juicy red berries from Grenache and earthy mid and back palate from Mourvedre.

Rapture 2022 Grenache is our pinnacle of Grenache. The finest barrels from our portfolio of Grenache parcels. Elegant. Poised. Balanced. Built to age or to savour now. 

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Regular bottled sunshine deliveries to your door – what could be more convenient than that? We sweeten the deal by making the club totally flexible, offering exclusive benefits, and free gifts as well.

• Your Choice: Choose your frequency of deliveries and the Number of bottles per delivery.  You can change your choices whenever you like and even take a subscription “holiday” and skip a delivery. Even tell us if there are any particular wines you would like in your pack when you get your renewal notices, otherwise our winemaker Rob’s expert selection will be hand selected for you. 
• Charged On the 1st: Your first pack will be charged for on the first of the month after you sign up. Your first pack will then be hand picked, hand packed and dispatched shortly thereafter. Your renewals will then be processed on the first of the month according to the schedule you chose (monthly, quarterly or six monthly). 
• Reminders: You’ll get a handy email reminder a week before your pack is due to be sent – a good time to update your contact or payment details, or to let us know if you would like certain wines in your pack.
• Value Forever: Your pack will always be worth more than what you pay. For starters, you get 5%, 10% or 15% off the core range rrp. Then you have a special free shipping & 10% discount coupon for additional purchases.  Then we add value by putting money-can’t-buy exclusives, bonus gifts and our higher value wines in your pack.
• Convenience: You deserve to enjoy receiving delicious wines to your door, sharing them with friends over dinner, at your favourite BYO restaurant, or on cosy nights in.

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Aphelion began with Grenache.

Our focus is Grenache.

Our future is Grenache.

Our original 2014 "Grenache project" has evolved. 

Presenting three exceptional McLaren Vale Single Vineyard wines.

Each made the same way with 100% whole bunches. Each highlights the diversity and beauty of Grenache, and the many terroirs in McLaren Vale. 

Guided by the deft and gentle hands of Rob Mack they sing of their purity.

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The Brini Single Vineyard Grenache 2024 is sourced from the upper tank block owned by the Brini family in the Blewitt Springs sub-region of McLaren Vale.

This block has been a staple of Aphelion from our first vintage and forms the backbone of the Confluence Grenache.

The roundest and most intense wine in the range, dark plum fruits dominate with earth and forest floor characters to create a wine of depth and richness. Sandy based loam soils provide fruit that gives intensity and a brooding edge.

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Unfiltered  |  Unfined  |  Vegan

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Production: 800 bottles produced under Diam Origine.

ABV: 13.5%

Accolades:

95 points Erin Larkin for Robert Parker Wine Advocate

95 points Huon Hooke The Real Review

93 points Gary Walsh for The Wine Front

92 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

"It’s a little sinewy and spicy, and also edgy in a savoury way... There are floral notes present, if a little restrained, a little compressed. Give it a year or so and it will soar." - Marcus Ellis

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Discover Brini Single Site Chenin Blanc 2024 from McLaren Vale's best vineyards in Blewitt Springs. Premium Australian white wine, abundant with terroir expression. 

Aphelion began with Grenache. Our focus is Grenache. Our future is Grenache. And the white variety we champion is Chenin Blanc.

Guided by the deft and gentle hands of Rob Mack it sings of its' purity and place.

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"Beautifully refined and elegant" - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

"(A) perfumed finish of excellent length, some lemon zest in the aftertaste. Complex and composed." - Gary Walsh for The Wine Front

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Sourced from the 52 year old house block owned by the Brini family since we first produced Chenin Blanc in 2019. 

Golden apple, white pear, green melon, and fennel seed, with subtle oak notes from its Stockinger puncheon. It has a chiselled, mineral texture, and is electrified by bright, natural acidity. Reserved in its youth, it promises excellent complexity and length with more time in the bottle.

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|  Unfined  |  Vegan

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Production: 600 bottles produced under Diam Origine.

ABV: 13.5%

Accolades:

96 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

94 points David Sly for Decanter

93+points Campbell Mattinson for The Wine Front

"This may be McLaren Vale’s, indeed the country’s, top-priced chenin blanc. But why not?...Beautifully refined and elegant, oak a calm chaperone, with golden apple, white pear, fennel seed, a little oatmeal and a maritime thing, lit up with oyster shells and sea breezes. It’s chiselled, mineral, subtly textural and electrified by ripe, natural acidity. Lovely. Only 600 bottles made." - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

"(A) perfumed finish of excellent length, some lemon zest in the aftertaste. Complex and composed. It does show a bit of oak scaffolding, though it’s very nice oak mind you, and will almost certainly improve with more time in bottle." - Gary Walsh for The Wine Front

"Lovely finish. Will be excellent in time." - Campbell Mattinson for The Wine Front

"(S)oft, round and flavoursome in its youth, with more to show in the future. The finish is crisp and refreshing with appley acidity and crunch. Slightly coconutty. This needs more time." - Huon Hooke for The Real Review

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Aphelion Callow Grenache Blanc 2025

McLaren Vale Grenache Blanc | Organic Single Vineyard | Limited Release

Aphelion Callow Grenache Blanc 2025 is a vibrant, textural and spice-laced expression of Grenache Blanc from a certified Organic and Biodynamic vineyard near Kangarilla in McLaren Vale.

Hand-picked and whole bunch pressed, this wine balances purity and freshness with subtle oak complexity. Bright acidity and layered texture make it both immediately compelling and capable of medium-term cellaring.

Only 250 six-packs produced.

Tasting Notes

Intense and vibrant fruit aromatics mingle with citrus and spice. A fine textural edge gives the wine a distinctly food-friendly feel. Cinnamon and nutmeg spice complement nashi pear and stone fruit flavours, finishing long and precise with refreshing acidity.

• Variety: Grenache Blanc
• Region: McLaren Vale (Kangarilla)
• Vineyard: Certified Organic & Biodynamic Yangarra Vineyard
• ABV: 13.2%
• Closure: Screwcap
• Vegan Friendly
• Serve: 8–10°C
• Cellaring: Drink now or cellar 5–8 years

Winemaking

Hand-picked fruit was whole bunch pressed. 60% was fermented in stainless steel to retain freshness and varietal purity, with the balance fermented in one new Austrian oak hogshead and seasoned French oak barriques.

A slow, cool ferment preserved aromatics. The wine remained on full lees with regular battonage until bottling in December 2025, building texture and complexity while maintaining precision.

Goes With

Goes With Food: Bouillabaisse — the body and spice of the wine mirror the dish beautifully.

Goes With Cheese: Comté — structured yet not overpowering, allowing the spice characters to shine.

Goes With Music: Muse – Stockholm Syndrome.

Goes With Life: Textural and aromatic, perfect as the first glass of the evening or paired with the feature dish of the night.

Why Buy Callow Grenache Blanc 2025?

• Rare McLaren Vale Grenache Blanc
• Certified Organic & Biodynamic vineyard source
• Textural, spice-driven white wine
• Cellar-worthy for 5–8 years
• Limited production — only 250 six-packs

This is a wine for lovers of Rhône-style whites, Chenin Blanc drinkers looking for something textural, and collectors of small-batch McLaren Vale releases.

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Frequently Asked Questions

McLaren Vale Grenache from Multiple Remarkable Sites | 95 Points | Limited Release

What happens when you bring some of McLaren Vale's most distinctive Grenache sites together?

You get Confluence.

Our original Grenache.

A wine that has been with us from the very beginning.

And if you want to understand why we're so obsessed with Grenache, this is a pretty good place to start.

Meet Confluence Grenache Noir 2025

Confluence is our expression of what happens when different sites, different soils and different expressions of Grenache come together.

The 2025 vintage brings together fruit predominantly from Blewitt Springs, with a touch of Clarendon, creating a McLaren Vale Grenache that is aromatic, complex, structured and remarkably easy to drink.

It's serious enough for dinner.

Relaxed enough for the back deck.

And interesting enough that you'll probably find yourself going back to the glass to see what changed.

That's Confluence.

Why Buy Confluence Grenache 2025?

What Does Confluence Grenache Taste Like?

Pour it and you'll see the vibrant red colour with purple hues in the glass.

At first, there's a savoury core of olive and briar.

Give it some air.

That's when the fruit starts to emerge.

Crunchy raspberry. Cranberry.

Then the palate opens up into Satsuma plum, wild strawberry and fine sandalwood, carried by fine tannins that give the wine impressive length.

There's real intensity and concentration here, but without heaviness or cloying sweetness.

It's the kind of Grenache that rewards attention without demanding it.

Pour a glass. Give it some air. Come back to it.

You'll probably find something new.

A Confluence of McLaren Vale Sites

Confluence isn't a single-site wine.

That's the point.

It brings together fruit from several remarkable vineyards to create something greater than any one parcel could achieve.

This is one of the reasons we love Grenache.

It can express the personality of a place with remarkable clarity — but it can also show what happens when different places are brought together deliberately.

Confluence is the latter.

How We Made Confluence Grenache 2025

Grenache fruit was hand-picked and a portion of the fruit was fermented as whole bunches.

30% whole bunch fermentation took place in stainless steel and small concrete open-top fermenters.

The wine was then matured in a combination of:

• 1,500L Drunk Turtle cocciopesto
• Seasoned French 2,800L foudre
• Demi-muid oak

The result is a wine with structure and complexity without letting oak dominate the fruit or site character.

Bottled February 2026.

Made for the Table

Confluence is deliberately food friendly.

It's got enough structure to stand up to dinner, enough freshness to keep you reaching for another glass and enough savoury character to make food taste better.

Goes With Food

Pan-seared duck.

The spice and body of the duck are a beautiful match for the wine.

Goes With Cheese

Camembert or a washed-rind cheese.

The mushroom characters in the cheese complement the wine without overwhelming its more delicate structure.

Goes With Music

Nick Cave – Jubilee Street.

Goes With Life

Out for a fancy dinner.

Or aperitivo on the back deck.

Because wine doesn't need an occasion.

Sometimes the occasion is simply that you've made it to the end of the day.

When Should You Drink Confluence 2025?

Now.

Confluence 2025 is ready to drink, but it has the structure, concentration and tannin to continue evolving through to 2035.

Serve at 18°C.

If you're drinking it tonight, give it some time in the glass.

If you're putting some away, expect the savoury and structural elements to become increasingly integrated with time.

Critic Recognition

95 points - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

Confluence has been one of the wines at the heart of Aphelion since the beginning, and the 2025 vintage continues that story with the combination we love: perfume, savouriness, structure, freshness and drinkability.

It's Grenache with enough going on to reward the serious wine drinker, without becoming a wine you have to think about.

Is Confluence the Right McLaren Vale Grenache for You?

Buy Confluence if you want a Grenache that's...

• Aromatic rather than heavy — expressive fruit and savoury complexity without excessive weight.
• Food friendly — structured enough for dinner but fresh enough to keep drinking.
• Complex without being complicated — there are layers here, but you don't need a wine degree to enjoy them.
• Distinctively McLaren Vale — drawing on fruit from some of the vineyards we know and work with closely.
• Built to evolve — ready now, with the structure to develop through 2035.
• A genuine Aphelion original — Confluence has been part of our Grenache story from the very beginning.

Confluence vs Single Site Grenache

Wondering whether you should choose Confluence or one of our Single Site Grenaches?

If you want to explore what McLaren Vale Grenache can do across different sites, Confluence is the place to start.

If you want to go deeper into the difference a particular block can make, explore our Single Site Grenaches next.

Why Confluence Is Worth Buying Direct from Aphelion

You can find Aphelion wines through selected retailers.

But when you buy Confluence directly from us, you're buying from the people who made it.

You're closer to the vineyards.

Closer to the winemaking.

Closer to the stories behind the bottle.

And you're first in line for the wines that never make it as far as retail.

Our Wine Club members also receive early access to new and limited releases, exclusive wines, complimentary tastings and member benefits.

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Ready to pour?

Choose between a 6-bottle pack or 12-bottle case of Aphelion Confluence Grenache Noir 2025.

With only 1,100 six-packs and 100 Magnums produced, this is a limited vintage.

Ready now. Delicious with dinner. Built to evolve.

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Shipping

We deliver Aphelion wines throughout Australia by Australia Post.

• South Australia: $15 flat-rate shipping per order.
• Rest of Australia: $20 flat-rate shipping per order.
• Wine Club members: Free shipping.
• Orders are usually dispatched within 2 business days.
• Delivery generally takes between 2 and 10 business days depending on location.

Wines cannot be shipped to dry zones and will not be delivered to anyone under 18 years of age.

Frequently Asked Questions About Confluence Grenache 2025

About Aphelion Wine Co.

Aphelion is a small, family-owned winery in McLaren Vale, South Australia, specialising in Grenache.

We work closely with growers and make wines from remarkable vineyards and specific sites across McLaren Vale.

Our wines are made to express place, season and the character of Grenache — and, most importantly, to be opened and enjoyed with good food and good people.

Aphelion began with Grenache.

Our focus is Grenache.

And our future is Grenache.

Emergent Mourvèdre 2022 has a special place in our hearts. 

This is our last vintage of a straight varietal Mourvedre.

Once relegated to second or third billing as a blending partner, Mourvèdre is finally emerging as a delectable wine itself. And rightly so. 

Well suited to the Mediterranean climate of McLaren Vale, it is a stunning medium bodied wine with a morish savoury edge of olive leaf and mushroom, sometimes leather.

Aromatic dark fruit means the Aphelion Emergent Mourvèdre is easy to sip and savour by itself while being bold enough to enhance your meal.

Variety:

Mourvèdre from from a single vineyard in White’s Valley, McLaren Vale.

Summary:

A beautiful mix of savoury characters and dark black fruits. Complexity builds in the glass.

Tasting Note:

The aromatics of this wine jump out the glass with sage, cherry spice and fresh almonds. Powdery tannins provide a canvas for the flavours that wash across the medium bodied palate, and bright acidity keeps the wine fresh and vibrant. Our 2021 Mourvèdre has a very long finish and persistent drive with an elegant fruit profile.

Goes With Food:

Very food friendly due to its savoury characters – try with duck rillettes and fresh crusty bread. (We love Little Acre Foods Duck Rillettes!)

Goes With Cheese:

An aged Pecorino would match the body of the wine and complement it’s acidity and spiciness.

Goes With Music:

Vance Joy – Lay It On Me

Goes With Life:

When the inspiration strikes to try something a little left of centre.

Serve At:

16-18 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink:

Ready to drink now, but will continue evolving through to 2030.

Vineyard:

Sourced from the Lacey family vineyard in the White’s Valley sub-district of McLaren Vale. The vineyard block is tiny, around three acres and the fruit is hand-picked.

Winemaking:

The hand-picked fruit was fermented with 25% whole bunches with the remaining destemmed. After pressing the wine was matured in seasoned French oak puncheons before blending and bottling in February 2021. 

Vegan | Unfiltered | Unfined

Production: 85 dozen produced under screwcap.

Accolades:

94 points Ned Goodwin – 2022 Halliday Wine Companion

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Hickinbotham Single Site 2024 is a benchmark Grenache wine from one of the best McLaren Vale Grenache vineyards - vibrant, savoury, elegant and cellar-worthy.

Aphelion began with Grenache. Our focus is Grenache. Our future is Grenache.

Our original 2014 "Grenache project" has evolved. 

Each vintage we coax from the earth three exceptional McLaren Vale Single Vineyard Grenache wines. 

Made the same way each year using 100% whole bunches, each highlights the diversity and beauty of Grenache and the many terroirs of McLaren Vale. 

Guided by the deft and gentle hands of Rob Mack they sing of their purity and place.

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Sourced from Blocks 111-113 at the highest elevation of the Hickinbotham vineyard owned by Yangarra in Clarendon, close to the Adelaide Hills.

A southerly aspect provides respite from the hot afternoon sun during ripening ensuring that this fruit is the last Grenache harvested. This produces a very well developed flavour profile.

The highest altitude wine in the range with vibrancy and crisp acid drive, red fruits mingle with herbal briar characters to create a wine of freshness and depth.

 Lifted aromatics of cranberry, bramble, and cherry. Herbal characters abound on the palate, with rosehip, just-ripe strawberry, and blood orange flavours. A rasp of light tannin provides good length and a savoury finish.

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Halliday Wine Companion placed our Hickinbotham Single Site Grenache 2024 as one of their Best Australian Grenache's on their Ultimate Aussie Festive Wine List. Marcus Ellis also gave our wine 97 points and a Special Value rosette. Noice.

Campbell Mattinson of The Wine Front said of the Hickinbotham 2024:

"I lost an hour or so today because I was sitting and marvelling at this wine and wondering how the hell I could do it justice in words. Some wines are better than the person writing about them. This wine pulls out the spice box and throws it at you, the fortunate thing being that the box wasn’t full and so what hits you seems reasonable. There are red licorice notes, red and black cherry, sandalwood, potpourri, an assortment of dry, roasted spices, a musky-vanillin-strawberry-shake note, and a peppercorn aspect. The way the flavours here volley through the palate, and the way it feels dry in the face of its own ripeness, and the way it then pulls a film of firm tannin right back through the wine – is all both magnificent and elite."

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Unfiltered  |  Unfined  |  Vegan

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Production: 1,300 bottles produced under Diam Origine.

ABV: 14.1%

Accolades:

97 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion & Special Value rosette

96 points Campbell Mattinson for The Wine Front

95 points Huon Hooke for The Real Review 

95 points David Sly for Decanter

"(G)loriously fragrant and complex, invested with depth and absent of heft. A swirl of red florals, souk spices, sandalwood, cranberry, sour cherry and umeboshi. The whole bunch adds savouriness, detail, lift and finely etched tannin, but knits in so quietly, with effortless integration. It’s a wine that makes me want to linger over the nose, so captivating is the fragrance. But it’s equally good on the palate, trailing long, the flavour fanning out expansively. Superb." - Marcus Ellis

"Medium-deep red-purple; lovely sweet raspberry/cherry fruit laced with mixed spices and iodine, with some complexing earthy/tarry and ironstone touches. Intense sweet fruit backed by emery-like tannins that dry the finish. Very smart Grenache" - Huon Hooke

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Something old is new again. And also old.

Back for a good time, not a long time is the NB Grenache 2024.

The wine that kept us guessing… and which told its own story.⁠

Named for its evolving aromas, flavours that changed every time Rob tasted it, and yes… it overflowed its fermenter!⁠

A wine with a mind of its own.

A one of a kind, a one off, well now the name comes alive again. A worthy recipient of the "Naughty Boy" moniker.⁠

100 cases.

100 year old vines.

$220 a dozen.

Meet NB Grenache 2024

Tasting Note: 

Black cherry. Star anise. 1/4 teaspoon of crushed blueberries. 

Then sniff again. 

The back of nanna's dried herb cupboard. 

Another sniff. 

Bright raspberry and cranberry!

Told you it's a chameleon. 

It tastes like early summer in the early afternoon. The BBQ is on, the friends are on the deck chairs while the kids shout from the trampoline and the dog drools every time someone pops cheese and cracker in their mouth. 

It's juicy with raspberry, supported by dark undertones and a welcome lick of tannin. 

Honestly, at $220 a dozen for a Rob Mack made Grenache, from 100 year old vines in Blewitt Springs, why on earth wouldn't you add to cart?!

Goes With Food: Grilled lamb cutlets with rosemary, wood-fired pizza, charred capsicum & haloumi skewers, or anything shared straight from the BBQ plate before it reaches the table.

Goes With Cheese: Vintage cheddar, aged Manchego, or a creamy D’Affinois — bonus points if there are crackers and you’re eating standing up, chatting, distracted.

Goes With Music: Culture Club – Karma Chameleon.

Goes With Life: When you are smiling and the sun is shining.

Serve At: 16-18 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink: Enjoy now. Or make an experiment and see how it evolves. It has the acid and tannin to evolve over time.

ABV%: 13.5%

Unfiltered  |  Unfined  |  Vegan

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This wine displays a wonderful balance of fresh acidity and textural interest from fermentation in both oak and tank. Ripe stone fruit characters flow seamlessly across the palate.

 Meet the Pir

Variety: Chenin Blanc from the Blewitt Springs district of McLaren Vale.

Summary: This wine displays a wonderful balance of fresh acidity and textural interest from fermentation in both oak and tank. Ripe stone fruit characters flow seamlessly across the palate.

Tasting Note: White peach, red apple and flint show on the aroma with cinnamon adding complexity. The palate is a textural delight with a great depth of flavour – time on ferment lees has provided an attractive creamy character to the wine. Use of French oak provides a touch of astringency on the finish. A rounded and complete wine, crisp acidity cleans the finish and provides great length.

Goes With Food: A rich baked salmon dish with green herb sauce would complement the palate roundness of this wine.

Goes With Cheese: A triple cream Camembert will match the body of this wine and complement its flinty aspects.

Goes With Music: Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You)

Goes With Life: A great way to finish off a flight of white wines before moving on to the reds, but the body of this wine gives it tremendous versatility.

Vegan

Serve At: 10-12 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink: Ready to drink now but will continue evolving through to 2030.

ABV%: 13.2%

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Aphelion's Rapture.

Our world class Grenache. Produced right here in McLaren Vale.

The pinnacle of Aphelion's Grenache-focused winemaking. 

2022 was an outstanding vintage so a thrilling release.

Extremely limited production. 

An ultra-rare re-release of our personal museum stock of the Rapture 2022. The 2023 sold through too fast! Snap up this outstanding wine, which is drinking beautifully in May 2026.

Tasting Note:

A vibrant purple hue in the glass. Brooding but fleshy aromatics are laced with an herbal spice note. Tannins are prominent but don’t dominate – cherry pip flavours wash over the mid palate. A savoury finish with an immense length and persistence. This wine will blossom with some bottle age.

Goes With Food: Perfect with duck rillettes and crunchy sourdough bread.

Goes With Cheese: An intense washed rind cheese such as Epoisses will match the intensity and savoury aspect of this Grenache well.

Goes With Music: Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun

Goes With Life: When you’re looking to impress at a wine dinner you won’t
go wrong pulling this out.

Unfiltered

Unfined

Vegan

<100ppm Sulphur

Accolades

97 points Huon Hooke for The Real Review
97 Points David Sly for Decanter
95+ points Erin Larkin for Robert Parker Wine Advocate
95 points Gary Walsh for The Wine Front
94 Ned Goodwin  for Halliday Wine Companion

It has depth and gravitas (a la the Hickinbotham), blood and finesse (a la the Brini) and is succulent and red (a la the Wait), and it pulls it all together like a hand-bound book. The spine and the stitchwork are there for all to see, but the pages fit together in the most satisfying of ways. The pages are filled with fruit-driven prose, and it closes with a flourish of tannin. It is poetic in its way. - Erin Larkin for Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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phelion's Rapture is of Aphelion's Grenache-focused winemaking, from some of the best McLaren Vale vineyards. Old vines, savoury depth, powerful structure and long aging potential.

Aphelion began with Grenache. Our focus is Grenache. Our future is Grenache.

Guided by the deft and gentle hands of Rob Mack it sings of their purity and place.

Each vintage is a thrilling release.

Extremely limited production. 

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"I was blown away. This wine is seriously good" - Campbell Mattinson for The Wine Front

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Tasting Note:

A vibrant purple hue in the glass. Brooding but fleshy aromatics are laced with an herbal spice note. Tannins are prominent but don’t dominate – cherry pip flavours wash over the mid palate. A savoury finish with an immense length and persistence. This wine will blossom with some bottle age.

Goes With Food: Perfect with duck rillettes and crunchy sourdough bread.

Goes With Cheese: An intense washed rind cheese such as Epoisses will match the intensity and savoury aspect of this Grenache well.

Goes With Music: Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun

Goes With Life: When you’re looking to impress at a wine dinner you won’t
go wrong pulling this out.

Unfiltered | Unfined | Vegan

ABV: 13.9%

Production: 1,100 bottles closed with Diam corks.

Accolades:

97 points Erin Larkin for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

97 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

96 points David Sly for Decanter

96 points Huon Hooke for The Real Review 

96 points Campbell Mattinson for The Wine Front

"It’s academically mid-weight but intense and incredibly long. It’s got detail, confident ease, depth and transparency, with a sapid mineral tension to close. Yes, yes, yes!" - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

"Very smart indeed" - Huon Hooke

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Discover the  Aphelion Reserve Mixed Pack. Five of the best McLaren Vale Grenache & Chenin Blanc single vineyard wines. Elegant, savoury and made for unforgettable moments.

Aphelion began with Grenache. Our focus is Grenache. And the white variety we champion is Chenin Blanc. 

Presenting our five most exceptional McLaren Vale Reserve Range wines. Each highlights the diversity, beauty, and the terroirs of McLaren Vale. Guided by the deft and gentle hands of Rob Mack, they sing of their purity and place.

Extremely limited production.

"Memserisingly good, world class wines of imitable character." - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

A single pack to sample, taste and compare all five Reserve Range wines in one Reserve Range Mixed Pack.

This is the best way for you to discover the breadth of flavour possible from McLaren Vale.

Enjoy together with close friends or family, music playing, and with something delicious to eat. That's what memories are made of.

Each 5 bottle case includes:

1 x bottle Rapture Grenache 2024 RRP @ $150

1 x bottle Brini Single Vineyard Chenin Blanc 2024 RRP @ $90

1 x bottle Brini Single Vineyard Grenache 2024 RRP @ $90
1 x bottle Wait Single Vineyard Grenache 2023 RRP @ $90  
1 x bottle Hickinbotham Single Vineyard Grenache 2024 RRP @ $90

Pack price: $500 (save $10). 

About The Wines

Rapture Grenache 2024 Rapture is the best of vintage. The pinnacle of what we can produce with Grenache. 

97 points Erin Larkin for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

97 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

96 points David Sly for Decanter

96 points Huon Hooke for The Real Review 

96 points Gary Walsh for The Wine Front

Brini Single Vineyard Grenache 2024 The lightest and most aromatic wine in the range, dark plum fruits dominate with earth and forest floor characters to create a wine of depth and richness. Sandy based loam soils provide fruit that gives intensity and a brooding edge.

95+ Erin Larkin for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

95 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

Wait Single Vineyard Grenache 2023 The most structural and savoury wine in the range, brooding in character with earth and briary characters dominating the palate.

96 points Erin Larkin for Robert Parker Wine Advocate

96 points Ryan Montgomery for James Suckling

95 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

94 points Huon Hooke The Real Review

NB: Wait Single Site Grenache 2024 is now sold out as at 28/08/2026

Hickinbotham Single Vineyard Grenache 2024 The lightest and most aromatic wine in the range, red fruits mingle with herbal briar characters to create a wine of freshness and depth.

97 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion Special Value

96 points Campbell Mattison for The Wine Front

95 points David Sly for Decanter

95 points Huon Hooke for The Real Review 

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Tendance Shiraz 2020 is our Aphelion take on the workhorse of McLaren Vale - Shiraz.

Tending more Rhone in style, Rob seeks out elegance, aromatics, spice and savouriness.

Variety:

Shiraz from two bordering vineyards on McMurtrie Road in the heart of McLaren Vale.

Summary: 

A fruit forward wine with good structure and balance showing a finesse that McLaren Vale Shiraz rarely displays.

Tasting Note:

Inky purple with a deep core, violets, brambles and mulberries combine with wood spice on the nose and palate. Savoury notes of olive, cracked coffee, cedar and green herbs add complexity. The wine displays good length on the palate and a supple texture in its medium to full bodied frame.

Goes With Food: 

The structure of the wine will work well with red meat dishes – venison and roasted vegetables would be a particularly good match.

Goes With Cheese: 

An aged gouda (especially a lightly smoked version) will complement both the fruity and savoury aspects of this Shiraz.

Goes With Music: 

Radiohead – Pyramid Song.

Goes With Life: 

Bring this one out when main course is served – it won’t shy away from medium to full bodied dishes.

Serve At:

18 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink:

Ready to drink now, but will continue evolving through to 2035.

Vineyard: 

Single cordon trellising and careful hand pruning resulted in low yields and intense flavour in the fruit.

Winemaking: 

The two vineyards were picked a week apart in mid-March. The first vineyard’s fruit was destemmed and fermented to dryness before being gently pressed and sent to neutral French oak to mature. The second vineyard was fermented in two batches; one was pressed to a brand-new Dominique Laurent French oak 600L puncheon, the second was kept on skins for four months to impart savoury complexity before pressing to large format (600L) French oak. The parcels were blended prior to bottling in November 2019.

Unfiltered | Unfined | Vegan

Production:

300 dozen produced under screwcap.


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Old Vine Grenache from Blewitt Springs | Single Site | 3 Years of Bottle Age

We've been waiting for Wait.

Some wines need time.

Not because they're difficult.

Because there's more to discover.

The 2023 Wait Single Site Grenache has now spent three years in bottle, and you can feel the difference.

It's settling into itself.

Uncoiling.

Revealing the layers that were always there.

Turned earth. Root vegetable. Dark cherry. Saline savouriness. Fine, persistent tannin.

This is the most structural and savoury wine in our Grenache range.

And it's a beautiful expression of what happens when an exceptional old site, extraordinary fruit and patient winemaking are allowed to speak for themselves.

Why Wait?

Aphelion began with Grenache.

Our focus is Grenache.

Our future is Grenache.

And our Single Site Grenache project is about getting closer to the place where the wine begins.

Because vineyards can be big.

Really big.

A single vineyard can contain different blocks, different varieties, different vine ages, different aspects and different expressions of the land.

We wanted to go further.

Beyond single vineyard. To single site.

A singular block inside a vineyard.

A specific place.

A particular expression of Grenache.

That's where Wait comes from.

The Wait Site

The fruit for Wait comes from the Top Bush block on the Wait family vineyard in the north-eastern corner of Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale.

This block was planted in the mid-1940s.

It is dry grown, producing small berries with intense flavour and prominent tannin.

Those old vines and the character of the site give Wait its distinctive personality:

Structural. Savoury. Brooding. Long.

It is Grenache with a darker, earthier side.

From Remarkable Sites, Not Just Famous Names

We work closely with our growers, who farm sustainably, organically and/or biodynamically to produce extraordinary fruit.

Because for us, provenance isn't just a name on a label.

It's the people who farm the vines.

The decisions made in the vineyard.

The age of the vines.

The block itself.

And the sense of place that ultimately finds its way into the glass.

That's what we're trying to capture with our Single Site Grenaches.

As only Grenache can do, they reveal the character of where they're grown.

What You'll Actually Taste

Deeply coloured with an intense purple hue.

The aromatics are savoury rather than overtly fruity.

Turned earth. Root vegetable. Dark cherry.

They're subtle at first, but there's real depth underneath.

Then the palate arrives.

Firm.

Savoury.

With a slightly saline edge that carries right through the wine.

The tannin is the most prominent feature of the three Single Site Grenaches. It comes in waves, carrying that savoury character across the palate with remarkable length.

This is the longest palate of the three.

And that structure is exactly why it works so beautifully with rich food — and why it will benefit from further time in the cellar.

Three Years in Bottle. Now Beginning to Uncoil.

We waited for Wait.

The 2023 vintage was bottled in May 2024, and it has now had three years to settle into itself.

Young Grenache can be exuberant.

With time, the wine starts to reveal another side.

Tannin becomes more integrated.

Savoury characters gain depth.

The different elements begin to knit together.

That's where Wait is now.

It's beginning to uncoil.

Ready to drink, but with plenty more to reveal.

Enjoy now, or follow its evolution through to 2034.

100% Grenache. 100% Whole Bunch.

The fruit was hand-picked on 4 April 2023 and processed as a 100% whole-bunch ferment.

After a slow, cool ferment, the fruit was pressed to large-format neutral French oak, where it remained on full lees until racking for bottling in May 2024.

Why whole bunch?

Because for a wine like Wait, structure and savoury character are part of the point.

The whole bunch ferment contributes to the wine's distinctive shape and tannin, while the large-format neutral oak allows the site and fruit to remain at the centre of the story.

At a Glance

• Variety: 100% Grenache
• Region: Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale, South Australia
• Site: Top Bush Block, Wait Vineyard
• Vine Age: 81 years old bush vines
• Farming: Dry grown
• Winemaking: 100% whole bunch ferment
• Oak: Large-format neutral French oak
• ABV: 14.4%
• Closure: Cork
• Production: Just 210 six-packs
• Serve: 16–18°C
• Drink: Now through 2034
• Unfiltered | Unfined | Vegan

Made For You

This wine was made for you if…

You'd rather discover a site than a famous label.
You want to know where your wine came from — right down to the block.

You prefer savoury complexity to obvious fruit.
Turned earth, briar, spice and structure make you lean in rather than reach for something sweeter.

You appreciate old vines.
You understand that vines planted in the mid-1940s have a story worth tasting.

You're building a serious cellar.
You'd rather buy fewer bottles with provenance than more bottles without it.

You order the interesting bottle at the restaurant.
Not necessarily the most famous. The one with a story.

You believe some of the best wines are worth waiting for.

Wait 2023 isn't trying to be everything to everyone.

It's for people who notice.

Critics Noticed Too

• 96 points — Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
• 95 points — Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
• 94 points — Huon Hooke, The Real Review
• 94 points — Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

Huon Hooke called it:

“Very attractive grenache.”

And the other reviews reinforce what we love about this wine: its structure, savoury character, depth and sense of place.

Goes With Food

Sausage and thyme ragu.

The richness of the dish is exactly what this wine's structure is made for.

Goes With Cheese

Crèmeux d'Argental and fruit crackers.

The creamy texture of the cheese provides a beautiful counterpoint to Wait's savoury tannin.

Goes With Music

Beast of Burden — The Rolling Stones.

Goes With Life

Sharing a bottle with good friends.

Or settling into a good book when you don't want the evening to end quite yet.

How to Get the Best From Wait 2023

Don't rush it.

Serve at 16–18°C.

Open the bottle and give it time to breathe.

Pour a glass.

Come back to it after 15 minutes.

Then 30.

Notice how the wine changes.

With three years of bottle age already behind it, Wait is beginning to reveal itself — but its structure means there's no need to finish the bottle in one sitting.

It's a wine worth spending an evening with.

Wait vs Confluence

Not sure which Aphelion Grenache to choose?

Or don't choose.

Taste them side by side.

That's the whole point of the Single Site project — to experience how different places can make Grenache speak differently.

Why Buy Wait Single Site Grenache 2023?

• Because you want to explore McLaren Vale Grenache at site level.
• Because these vines were planted in the mid-1940s.
• Because the Top Bush block is dry grown and produces small berries with intense flavour and prominent tannin.
• Because you prefer savoury, earthy and structural Grenache.
• Because it's had three years in bottle to settle, integrate and begin uncoiling.
• Because it has received 96, 95, 94 and 94 point reviews.
• Because only 210 six-packs were produced.
• Because provenance matters to you.
• Because you believe remarkable old vines deserve to be protected and celebrated.

Frequently Asked Questions

Buy Wait Single Site Grenache 2023

Three years in bottle. One extraordinary block. 210 six-packs.

Wait 2023 has been waiting.

Now it's ready to reveal itself.

Select a 6-bottle pack or 12-bottle case and experience the Wait Single Site Grenache 2023.

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The Aphelion Grenache Project

Aphelion began with Grenache.

Our focus is Grenache.

Our future is Grenache.

And our Single Site project takes that obsession one step further.

We don't just want to tell you that a wine comes from McLaren Vale.

We want to show you what happens when you get closer.

Closer to Blewitt Springs.

Closer to the Wait vineyard.

Closer still to the Top Bush block.

To old, dry-grown vines.

To the growers who care for them.

To the fruit.

To the place.

Because remarkable sites deserve to be known.

And sometimes, the best way to understand a place is to pour it into a glass.

Wait 2023 is ready.

Take your time.

Let it uncoil.

See where it takes you.

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The Welkin By Aphelion Chenin Blanc 2025 is part of our range of vibrant, early release, ready to enjoy, but delightfully complex wines.

Bright, clean aromas and crisp flavours are the hallmark of our Adelaide Hills Chenin Blanc. 

From one - if not the only - Adelaide Hills Chenin vineyard.

Toast summer and seafood with this beautiful Riesling style Chenin.

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Goes With Food: Fresh Marron with a light garlic and herb butter sauce.

Goes With Cheese: Gently flavoured soft cheese such as Brie will match the body of this wine.

Goes With Music: Florence + The Machine - Delilah.

Goes With Life: A great choice to start off the night or as a light finish to the meal with a cheese board.

Serve At: 10-12 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink: Ready to drink now or up to five years from vintage.

ABV%: 12.8%


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Welkin Falanghina 2025

Aphelion Wine Co. | McLaren Vale

A bright, textural expression of Falanghina from McLaren Vale, Welkin captures the variety’s Mediterranean origins with unmistakable Aphelion precision. Late-ripening and naturally high in acidity, Falanghina thrives in McLaren Vale’s warm days and cooling coastal influence, producing a wine of purity, energy and poise.

Sourced from the Oliver family vineyard in the Seaview sub-district, this is only the second crop from the site. Fermented in a combination of concrete egg and seasoned French oak, Welkin balances generous fruit with restraint, length and subtle texture.

Tasting Notes

Pale straw in colour. Aromas of tropical fruit, crisp rockmelon and nashi pear leap from the glass, layered with ripe stone fruit and floral lift. Clean and pure on the palate with bountiful fruit framed by piercing natural acidity. A light textural element from time on lees carries the wine to a long, refreshing finish.

Wine Details

• Variety: Falanghina
• Region: Seaview sub-district, McLaren Vale
• Vineyard: Oliver family vineyard
• Vintage: 2025
• Alcohol: 13.0%
• Winemaking: Hand-picked. Fermented in 950L concrete egg (55%) and seasoned French oak barriques (45%). Two months on lees with bâtonnage.
• Closure: Screwcap
• Vegan Friendly: Yes
• Production: Only 392 six-packs produced

Goes With

🍽 Goes With Food

Seafood is a natural match — think fresh marron with garlic and herb butter, grilled prawns, or delicately flavoured white fish.

🧀 Goes With Cheese

Soft, gently flavoured cheeses such as Brie that mirror the wine’s body and texture.

🎶 Goes With Music

Italian summer playlists, acoustic sessions, or anything rhythmic yet restrained.

🌤 Goes With Life

Long lunches, coastal afternoons, quiet celebrations and moments that deserve brightness and clarity.

Serving & Cellaring

• Serve at: 10–12°C
• When to drink: Enjoy now or cellar for up to five years from vintage

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Welkin Grenache By Aphelion 2024 is part of our special range of vibrant, early release, ready to enjoy, but delightfully complex wines.

We like to call the Welkin Grenache "furiously aromatic".

It fairly leaps out of the glass at you!

Delicately hand picked with 50% from a 20 year old Grenache vineyard towards the sea in Whites Valley and 50% from the hilly, sandy Blewitt Springs.  

Revel in this wine's light body, heady spiciness and juicy acidity.

Meet Welkin Grenache

Tasting Note: Beautifully intense purple colour. Pure fruited aromas of redcurrant and cinnamon follow through on to the palate with fresh acidity keeping the wine lively and
vibrant. A small percentage of whole bunch fermentation in the wine adds a savoury element and herbal notes. The Welkin Grenache is a light bodied wine that works very well in an aperitivo setting.

Goes With Food: Perfect with light tapas or light to medium bodied cuisine.

Goes With Cheese: Fresh chevre matches this wine’s youthful vibrancy.

Goes With Music: Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt.

Goes With Life: A great wine to kick off with, it’s light body keeps the drinkability factor high.

Serve At: 16-18 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink: Ready to drink now whilst it retains it’s youthful vibrancy but will drink well over the next 5 – 8 years.

ABV%: 13%

Unfiltered  |  Unfined  |  Vegan

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Discover devilishly good Welkin Nero d’Avola 2025 - vibrant, savoury and elegant. For lovers of the best McLaren Vale wine moments.

Beautifully intense purple in colour with aromatics that jump out of the glass.

Pure fruited aromas of redcurrant and spicy plum follow through on to the palate with fresh acidity keeping the wine lively and vibrant.

A slight rasp of powdery tannin mouth-grip adds a savoury element and helps the flavours go on and on. 

Dance with the devil and come out the winner with the Welkin Nero d'Avola by Aphelion 2025.

Meet the Welkin Nero

Tasting Note: Beautifully intense purple colour with aromatics that jump out of the glass. Pure fruited aromas of redcurrant and spicy plum follow through on to the palate with fresh acidity keeping the wine lively and vibrant. A slight rasp of powdery tannin a herbal element provide a good palate length.

Goes With Food: Roasted eggplant with orecchiette pasta..

Goes With Cheese: Fetta with olive oil and whole peppercorns match the energy of this wine’s palate.

Goes With Music: The Killers - Bones.

Goes With Life: Fruit driven and energetic, chilled down a little this wine is a perfect choice when the weather turns warm.

Serve At: 16-18 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink: Ready to drink now whilst it retains its youthful vibrancy but will drink well over the next 4 – 6 years.

ABV%: 13.5%

| Unfiltered | Unfined | Vegan |

Accolades:

"Black cherry, spiced plum, cocoa, kirsch. Like a blackforest cake, but without the pomp and richness. Rather, it has a savoury, mid-weighted feel to the juicy fruits, with some sarsaparilla notes detailing further. Nicely done" - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion

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The Welkin Sparkling Chenin Blanc By Aphelion 2021 is part of our brand new special range of vibrant, early release, ready to enjoy, but delightfully complex wines.

Our first sparkling wine.

Pale straw colour in the glass.
Aromatics of red apple and lemon curd lead to a palate that is fresh and vibrant.
Great mouthfeel and length of the palate. 

Raise a toast with the Welkin Sparkling Chenin Blanc 2021.

Goes With Food: Fresh oysters are a perfect match - the crispness and light body of the wine cut through the richness of the oyster perfectly.

Goes With Cheese: A high quality Parmesan will match the light brioche characters in the wine.

Goes With Music: Kanye – Ghost Town.

Goes With Life: Pop this wine to celebrate life’s best moments! Also a great start to any evening meal.

Serve At: 10-12 degrees Celsius.

When to Drink: Ready to drink now but will cellar well over the next 3 to 5 years.

ABV%: 11.5%


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