2025 McLaren Vale Single Site Grenache Collection | Four Vineyards | Four Award-Winning Wines

BLEWITT SPRINGS · CLARENDON · McLAREN VALE · SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Four remarkable vineyards. One extraordinary vintage. One very special collection.

What if you could taste the difference between four remarkable Grenache vineyards, all from the same vintage, made the same way by the same winemaker?

That's exactly what we've brought together in the Aphelion 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection.

Four exceptional old-vine and single-site Grenaches. Four very different personalities. And one vintage that Rob believes is the finest we've ever made at Aphelion.

From the deeply savoury old vines of Wait to the magnificent, concentrated debut of Plaisted's, the precision of high-elevation Hickinbotham and the beautiful perfume of Brini, this is a fascinating journey through the vineyards that make McLaren Vale Grenache so special.

And the critics agree.

97 points - Wait, Halliday Wine Companion
96 points - Plaisted's, The Wine Front
96 points - Hickinbotham, Halliday Wine Companion and The Wine Front
96 points - Brini, Halliday Wine Companion

Four bottles. Four vineyard stories. Endless possibilities for a very good evening.

What's in the Collection?

One bottle each of our four 2025 Single Site Grenache Noir wines, selected from some of McLaren Vale's most remarkable vineyards.

Complimentary Limited Time 2025 Single Site Companion

Exclusively Available Direct From Aphelion Only

Every purchase of the new Single Site Grenache 2025 Collection made direct from Aphelion will receive, completely free of charge, three special launch edition time-limited bonuses:

• A full Enjoyment Guide;
• Four perfectly paired Recipe cards;
• Four Taste Over Time cards. 

Limited Time Only

Available for qualifying purchases until Monday 2 November at 11:59pm Adelaide time. The wines themselves remain available after the bonuses expire, subject to stock. 

About the Companion:

• Single Site Grenache Enjoyment Guide

Includes paired music Spotify playlist, how to serve your Single Site's so they show at their best, each wine's characteristics at a glance, ideas to open all four at home.

• Inspiring, Perfectly Paired Recipe Cards

A simply delicious meal suggestion that is easy to make and sure to please - for each of the Single Site wines. Included in your box with our compliments. 

• Four Taste Over Time Cards.

Record how your Single Site's evolve over time by recording what you notice each time you try them. A set of the four Taste Over Time cards will be included in your box. 

Meet the Four Grenaches

1. Brini - The Elegant, Aromatic One

Blewitt Springs | Upper Tank Block | RRP $90

Brini is a vineyard close to our hearts.

We've worked with the Brini family since Aphelion's very first vintage, and fruit from this remarkable vineyard has helped shape our Grenache story from the beginning.

The 2025 Brini is darker and more brooding than previous, cooler vintages, yet remains the most elegant and aromatic of our four Single Site wines.

Dark plum, cherry, cinnamon and forest berries meet lifted florals, mineral tension and beautifully fine tannins.

It's the wine that reminds us how powerfully Grenache can express its origins while retaining grace and perfume.

96 points - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
95+ points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

"Fabulous quality."
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

 

2. Hickinbotham - The High-Elevation Original

Clarendon | South-facing Blocks 111-113 | RRP $90

What happens when Grenache grows high above the valley, on slopes protected from the hottest afternoon sun?

You get Hickinbotham.

The highest-elevation wine in our 2025 Single Site range, this is a Grenache of extraordinary precision and energy.

Bright cranberry, cherry and redcurrant meet fragrant florals, savoury herbs and fine spice. Beneath it all is a beautifully intricate framework of tannin and vibrant natural acidity.

Freshness without sacrificing flavour. Structure without heaviness. A wine that makes a compelling case for the extraordinary diversity of McLaren Vale Grenache.

96 points - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
96 points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

"Exquisite."
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

3. Wait - The Old-Vine Powerhouse

Blewitt Springs | Bush vines planted in the mid-1940s | RRP $90

Some wines reveal everything in the first sip. Wait makes you work a little harder, and rewards you wonderfully for it.

From the Wait family's dry-grown Top Bush block, this is Grenache with extraordinary savoury depth. Dark cherry, turned earth, wild herbs and a slightly saline edge are carried by waves of persistent tannin.

It's structured, brooding and built to evolve. A wine to decant generously, serve with something delicious and revisit as the evening unfolds.

97 points - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
96+ points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

"Wine of the Year contender."

Campbell Mattinson for The Wine Front

4. Plaisted's - The Magnificent Newcomer

Blewitt Sands | Vines planted in 1947 | RRP $90

Our newest Single Site Grenache has arrived with quite an introduction.

From the Hatwell family's Plaisted's vineyard, planted in 1947, this is the most concentrated and full-bodied wine of the four.

Imagine an irresistible perfume of blueberries, raspberries and violets, followed by dark cherry, cedar, sweet spice and a hint of orange zest. Powerful, beautifully controlled tannins carry the wine through an exceptionally long finish.

It's a wine for the good plates, slow-roasted lamb and a celebration worth remembering. Or a bottle tucked safely away for a milestone still to come.

96 points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

"It's an epic release from Aphelion."
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

Four Vineyards. Four Very Different Personalities.

This is what makes the Collection so much fun.

All four wines come from McLaren Vale. All four are Grenache. All four were made by Rob in the same exceptional vintage, using a consistent winemaking approach.

And yet, they're remarkably different.

You'll discover the savoury intensity of dry-grown old bush vines at Wait.

The extraordinary concentration of Plaisted's, grown on deep Blewitt Sands.

The precision and freshness of Hickinbotham's high, south-facing Clarendon blocks.

And the elegant, aromatic expression of the Brini vineyard.

Different soils. Different elevations. Different vine histories. Different personalities.

One winemaker. One vintage. Four fascinating expressions of place.

It's a wonderful way to discover why we're so captivated by Grenache, and why McLaren Vale is one of the world's most exciting places to grow it.

Make an Evening of It - Your Own Grenache Tasting

Four bottles. Four glasses. A few people whose company you love.

Here's our idea of a rather excellent evening.

Invite a handful of wine-loving friends around. Put something delicious in the oven. Bring out the good glasses, a few cheeses and a notebook if you're feeling particularly serious.

Open all four wines and give them a generous decant. These are structured, tightly wound Grenaches that reward time and air.

Pour a little of each into separate glasses and begin exploring.

Start with Brini's beautiful perfume. Move to the freshness and precision of Hickinbotham. Discover the extraordinary concentration of Plaisted's. Finish with Wait's deep savoury character and waves of tannin.

Then do something even more interesting.

Go back to the first glass.

Notice how the wines have changed with air. Which one has become more fragrant? Which has softened? Which is revealing flavours you didn't notice before?

There are no wrong answers, and no need to agree.

In fact, half the fun is discovering that everyone around the table has a different favourite.

Put on some music. Bring out another course. Let the conversation wander.

That's the beauty of this Collection. It's not just four bottles of wine. It's an evening worth remembering.

Four Wines Made for the Table

Each wine has its own favourite companions, which makes this Collection a particularly enjoyable way to explore Grenache with food.

Wait - A generous bowl of sausage and thyme ragù, or a wedge of beautifully aged Comté. Rich, savoury flavours that meet the wine's deep earthy character and powerful tannins.

Plaisted's - Slow-roasted lamb shoulder with rosemary and garlic, or clothbound cheddar with quince paste. A wonderfully generous match for the wine's concentrated fruit and impressive structure.

Hickinbotham - Vegetable lasagne with a rich béchamel, or creamy d'Affinois. The wine's bright acidity and fine tannins bring freshness and balance to these comforting dishes.

Brini - Grilled venison with juniper and spice, or Crémeux d'Argental with fruit crackers. A beautiful pairing for Brini's perfume, savoury complexity and finely textured palate.

Or simply put all four bottles on the table with a generous spread of good food and let everyone discover their own favourite combination.

Make Moments Count.

One Extraordinary Vintage

Rob believes 2025 is the finest vintage Aphelion has ever made.

That's not something we say lightly.

Since our first vintage in 2014, Grenache has been at the heart of everything we do. We've spent years working with growers, learning the personalities of remarkable vineyards and refining how we capture their character in the bottle.

The 2025 Single Site Grenaches represent a particularly exciting moment in that journey.

Each wine has its own distinctive personality, but they share a remarkable combination of concentration, freshness, structure and length.

They are wines with something to say today, and plenty more to reveal over the years ahead.

All four have the potential to continue evolving through 2038 when stored correctly.

Open them together now. Or cellar them and follow their stories over time.

A Remarkable Grenache Gift

For the person who already knows a thing or two about wine. Or the one who's about to discover a new obsession.

Buying a special bottle for a wine lover can be surprisingly difficult.

But four exceptional Grenaches from four remarkable vineyards, all from the same vintage?

Now that's a gift with a story to tell.

Give the Collection to someone who loves discovering new wines, exploring the differences between vineyards or putting something special away in the cellar.

It's also a wonderful gift to share.

Imagine bringing the four bottles to a birthday dinner or anniversary celebration, pouring them side by side and letting everyone choose their favourite.

And because the wines have excellent cellaring potential, there's no pressure to open them all at once.

One for tonight. One for next year. One for a milestone. One for a future celebration you haven't even imagined yet.

Four bottles. So many possibilities.

The Complete 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection 

One bottle each of Wait, Plaisted's, Hickinbotham and Brini Single Site Grenache Noir 2025.

This isn't a discounted mixed pack. It's the complete expression of our 2025 Single Site Grenache release, brought together so you can experience the vineyards alongside one another.

Each wine is made in genuinely small quantities, with only 1,200 standard bottles produced from each site.

Once an individual wine sells out, we may no longer be able to offer the complete Collection.

Four exceptional Grenaches. One extraordinary vintage. Discover your favourite.

Why This McLaren Vale Grenache Collection Is Different

This isn't simply four bottles of Grenache in a box.

It's a carefully curated exploration of four distinctive vineyards, all interpreted by the same winemaker in the same exceptional vintage.

Rather than comparing different wineries or winemaking styles, you're tasting the influence of place.

Old vines in Blewitt Springs. Deep sandy soils at Plaisted's. High, south-facing blocks in Clarendon. The remarkable perfume of Brini.

Each wine has been made with 100% whole-bunch fermentation and matured in neutral French oak, allowing the differences between vineyards to remain at the forefront.

For anyone curious about single-vineyard Grenache, old-vine McLaren Vale wines or the influence of terroir, this is a fascinating and delicious place to start.

And for those who already love Grenache, it's a rare opportunity to taste the complete 2025 Aphelion Single Site release together.

Buy Direct from the Aphelion Family Winery

When you buy the 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection direct from Aphelion, you're supporting the small family winery that works with these remarkable growers and makes each of these wines.

You're buying from the people who know the vineyards, picked the fruit, made the wines and chose the moment they were ready to share.

We're a first-generation family winery, and Grenache has been our focus since the very beginning.

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

Thank you for being part of our story.

More About the 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection

Frequently Asked Questions

Love Grenache? Come Closer to Aphelion.

If you've enjoyed discovering our four Single Site Grenaches, we'd love to welcome you into the Aphelion Bottled Sunshine Wine Club.

Members enjoy early access to new releases and events, exclusive and museum wines, and 10% off additional purchases with free shipping.

It's a lovely way to stay connected to our little family winery and discover what's coming next.

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1947 Old Vine Blewitt Springs Grenache 2025 | 96 Points | Only 1,200 Bottles

PLAISTED'S VINEYARD · BLEWITT SANDS · BLEWITT SPRINGS · McLAREN VALE

Almost 80-year-old vines. Extraordinary concentration. An epic new chapter for Aphelion Grenache.

Aphelion Plaisted's Single Site Grenache Noir 2025 is a premium, old-vine McLaren Vale Grenache from a remarkable vineyard planted in 1947 in the Blewitt Sands district of Blewitt Springs, South Australia.

New to the Aphelion Single Site range in 2025, Plaisted's is our most concentrated and full-bodied Grenache of the vintage. Deeply perfumed, richly textured and beautifully structured, it brings together layers of blueberry, raspberry and dark cherry with violet, cedar, sweet spice and orange zest.

Its defining character is power held in perfect balance. Concentrated fruit, powerful but finely structured tannins and fresh natural acidity combine in an exceptionally long, savoury finish.

Rob believes 2025 is the finest Grenache vintage we've ever made at Aphelion. Plaisted's is an exciting new expression of what makes McLaren Vale Grenache so extraordinary.

"Magnificent grenache. So perfumed, so sure, so firm and yet so well extended."

"It's an epic release from Aphelion."

96 points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front 

Why Choose Plaisted's Single Site Grenache 2025?

96 Points - The Wine Front
Campbell Mattinson describes this debut wine as magnificent Grenache and an epic release, praising its extraordinary perfume, layered fruit and beautifully controlled finish.

Old Vines - Planted in 1947
Sourced exclusively from the middle section of the Hatwell family's Plaisted's vineyard in Blewitt Sands, where old Grenache vines grow in deep sandy soils.

The Most Concentrated Wine in the Range
Our fullest-bodied 2025 Single Site Grenache, with dark fruit, powerful yet finely structured tannins and remarkable intensity.

100% Whole Bunch
Hand-picked Grenache, fermented entirely as whole bunches and matured in large-format neutral French oak.

Only 1,200 Bottles
A tiny inaugural Single Site release, with just 50 Magnums produced separately.

A Wine Worth Waiting For
Tightly wound and richly layered, with the structure, concentration and freshness to continue evolving through 2038.

Complimentary Limited Time 2025 Single Site Companion

Exclusively Available Direct From Aphelion Only

Every purchase of the new Single Site Grenache 2025 Collection made direct from Aphelion will receive, completely free of charge, three special launch edition time-limited bonuses:

• A full Enjoyment Guide;
• A perfectly paired Recipe card;
• A Taste Over Time card. 

Limited Time Only

Available for qualifying purchases until Monday 2 November at 11:59pm Adelaide time. The wines themselves remain available after the bonuses expire, subject to stock. 

About the Companion:

• Single Site Grenache Enjoyment Guide

Includes paired music Spotify playlist, how to serve your Single Site's so they show at their best, each wine's characteristics at a glance, ideas to open all four at home.

• Inspiring, Perfectly Paired Recipe Card

A simply delicious meal suggestion that is easy to make and sure to please. Included in your box with our compliments. 

• A Taste Over Time Card.

Record how your Single Site's evolve over time by recording what you notice each time you try them. A  Taste Over Time card will be included in your box. 

Meet Plaisted's Single Site Grenache 2025

Some vineyards are worth waiting almost 80 years to discover.

In the Blewitt Sands district of McLaren Vale, the Hatwell family tends a remarkable parcel of Grenache vines planted in 1947.

For nearly eight decades, these vines have been quietly doing what great old vines do. Sending their roots deep into the sandy earth, weathering the seasons and producing fruit that carries the unmistakable character of its place.

In 2025, Rob chose a small parcel from the middle section of the vineyard to create something new for Aphelion.

Our fourth Single Site Grenache.

And what an introduction.

The vines grow in deep sandy soils, producing berries with particularly thick skins. The resulting wine is deeply coloured, richly concentrated and beautifully structured.

It's the most powerful and full-bodied Grenache in our 2025 Single Site collection, but there's nothing heavy-handed about it.

Instead, it has a captivating perfume of violets, blueberries and raspberries, with cedar, sweet spice and orange zest adding layer upon layer of intrigue.

Then come the tannins. Firm, persistent and remarkably controlled, carrying the wine across the palate with extraordinary length.

For Campbell Mattinson, writing in The Wine Front, this is Grenache of exceptional quality. He describes the wine as magnificent, praising its perfume, assurance and remarkable length.

And yet, for all its generosity, Plaisted's is keeping some of its best secrets for later.

It's tightly wound today, with the concentration and structure to reveal even greater complexity over the years ahead.

A remarkable debut. A vineyard with almost 80 years of history. And a wine whose most exciting chapters may still be ahead of it.

What Does Plaisted's Grenache 2025 Taste Like?

Deeply coloured, richly concentrated and wonderfully perfumed.

Layers of blueberry, raspberry and dark cherry rise from the glass, lifted by violet, cedar, sweet spice and a delicate hint of orange zest.

The palate is full-bodied and richly textured, with generous dark fruit framed by powerful yet finely structured tannins.

Fresh natural acidity brings energy and definition, ensuring the wine's remarkable concentration never overwhelms its sense of balance.

Look a little closer and you'll find mint, savoury herbs and subtle earthy notes woven through the fruit.

The finish is exceptionally long, savoury and beautifully controlled.

This is a Grenache that reveals itself slowly. Give it air, return to the glass and discover how its layers unfold.

Extraordinary perfume. Velvety concentration. Power, precision and a finish that seems to go on forever.

Made for the Table

Goes With Food

Slow-roasted lamb shoulder. Crispy potatoes. A generous helping of good company.

There are few things more satisfying than carrying a beautiful slow-roasted lamb shoulder to the table, knowing it's been cooking for hours and will fall apart with the gentlest nudge of a fork.

Make it a proper feast. Golden potatoes with crunchy edges, a big bowl of something green, and plenty of those delicious cooking juices.

Open the Plaisted's while the lamb rests. Give it a generous decant, sneak a taste, and let its remarkable perfume of blueberries, violets and sweet spice fill the glass.

When everyone finally sits down, you'll discover why this pairing works so beautifully. The richness of the lamb meets Plaisted's powerful, finely structured tannins, while its concentrated fruit and fresh acidity bring the whole plate to life.

For a vegetarian feast? Make a golden mushroom and thyme tart with caramelised onions and Gruyère. Serve with a sharply dressed green salad. The earthy mushrooms and buttery pastry are wonderful with Plaisted's dark fruit and savoury depth.

Either way, this is a wine that deserves the good plates, the big serving dishes and a second helping.

Goes With Cheese

Clothbound cheddar. Quince paste. A little something spectacular after dinner.

When the main course is finished and everyone insists they couldn't possibly eat another thing, bring out a generous wedge of aged clothbound cheddar.

The proper stuff. Crumbly, deeply savoury, with those wonderful nutty flavours that come from patient ageing.

Add a little quince paste, a handful of toasted walnuts and some crisp crackers. Nothing complicated, just a few excellent things that belong together.

Now pour the Plaisted's.

The cheddar's savoury richness is a delicious counterpoint to the wine's concentrated blueberry and dark cherry fruit. The quince brings a little sweetness, the walnuts echo its earthy complexity, and those beautifully structured tannins keep everything in balance.

Try the cheese first, then a sip of wine. Then add a little quince and try again.

It's a tiny tasting adventure, and a lovely excuse to discover how one remarkable wine can show so many different sides of itself.

Someone will almost certainly ask for another slice.

Goes With Music

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain.

It's late afternoon. The last of the cheese is disappearing, someone has taken charge of the music, and those opening guitar notes of The Chain drift across the room.

A few heads start nodding. Someone knows every word. And when that unmistakable bassline kicks in towards the end, there's absolutely no chance anyone's going home just yet.

Plaisted's has that same wonderful sense of anticipation.

It begins with an irresistible perfume of blueberries, raspberries and violets. Then the layers build. Dark cherry, cedar, sweet spice, a little orange zest. Beneath it all, powerful, beautifully woven tannins hold everything together.

And just when you think you've discovered everything it has to offer, there's that extraordinary finish. Long, confident and impossible to ignore.

Like The Chain, this is a wine with plenty of moving parts, but somehow they come together to create something magnificent.

Turn it up. Pour another glass. Some things are worth experiencing all the way to the end.

Goes With Life

For the milestones worth celebrating. And the ones still waiting to happen.

Think about the next occasion you'll really want to remember.

A significant birthday. An anniversary. A long-awaited reunion. Perhaps the day someone finally gets the keys to their first home, or announces something wonderful over dinner.

Now imagine opening a bottle from Grenache vines planted in 1947, a wine that's been quietly waiting for its moment.

There's a little ceremony to it. Retrieving the bottle, carefully decanting it, pouring the first glass and watching everyone's reaction as those extraordinary aromatics emerge.

And there's something lovely about knowing this is the very first vintage of Plaisted's Single Site Grenache we've ever made.

Of course, you don't have to wait for a milestone. Sometimes the best reason to open a remarkable bottle is that you've gathered your favourite people together and the evening feels worth celebrating.

But if you do put one away, perhaps write a date on the box. Give it a few years. Imagine the pleasure of opening it when that special day finally arrives.

Some bottles celebrate the moment. Others become part of the story.

Make Moments Count.

Discover the 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection

One extraordinary vintage. Four remarkable sites. Four distinctly different expressions of Grenache.

Rob believes 2025 is Aphelion's finest vintage yet. The most rewarding way to explore that belief is to taste the vineyards alongside one another.

Our 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection brings together one bottle each of:

• Plaisted's - Blewitt Springs: The most concentrated and full-bodied of the four. Perfumed, powerful and richly layered, from vines planted in 1947. 96 Wine Front.
• Wait - Blewitt Springs: Old-vine Grenache with extraordinary savoury depth, power and structure. A Wine of the Year contender according to Campbell Mattinson. 97 Halliday · 96+ Wine Front.
• Hickinbotham - Clarendon: High-elevation Grenache with savoury precision, vibrant red fruit, crystalline acidity and intricate tannins. 96 Halliday · 96 Wine Front.
• Brini - Blewitt Springs: An elegant, aromatic expression with dark fruit, floral lift and mineral tension. 96 Halliday · 95+ Wine Front.

Four vineyards. One extraordinary vintage. Four very different personalities.

All four are tightly wound, structured wines that reward curiosity, generous air and time.

Open them together for a memorable Grenache tasting with friends. Or cellar them and follow how each vineyard develops over the years ahead.

Which one will become your favourite?

EXPLORE THE 2025 SINGLE SITE GRENACHE COLLECTION →

Buy Direct from the Aphelion Family Winery

When you buy Plaisted's Single Site Grenache direct from Aphelion, you're supporting the small family winery that discovered the potential of this remarkable old-vine vineyard and brought its first Single Site release to life.

You're buying from the people who know the growers, picked the fruit, made the wine and chose the moment it was ready to share.

You'll also find our complete Grenache range, including limited releases and access to wines that may never reach retail shelves.

Thank you for supporting our family winery directly.

Our Bottled Sunshine Wine Club members enjoy exclusive and pre-release wines, early access to new releases and events, 10% off additional purchases and free shipping.

DISCOVER THE APHELION WINE CLUB →

More About Plaisted's Single Site Grenache 2025

Questions About Plaisted's Single Site Grenache 2025

About Aphelion Wine Co.

Aphelion is a small, family-owned winery in McLaren Vale, South Australia, founded by Rob and Louise Mack.

Grenache has been our focus since our first vintage in 2014. We work closely with growers and make small batches from remarkable vineyards, allowing differences in place and season to remain visible in the finished wine.

We believe great wine belongs at the table, shared with good food, good people and conversations worth having.

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

Old Vine Blewitt Springs Grenache 2025 | 97 Points | Only 1,200 Bottles

WAIT FAMILY VINEYARD · TOP BUSH BLOCK · BLEWITT SPRINGS · McLAREN VALE

Old vines. Extraordinary structure. A Grenache that stays with you.

Aphelion Wait Single Site Grenache Noir 2025 is a premium, old-vine McLaren Vale Grenache from the Wait family's dry-grown Top Bush vineyard in Blewitt Springs, South Australia.

Planted in the mid-1940s, these remarkable bush vines produce small berries of intense flavour, giving Wait its distinctive combination of savoury depth, powerful tannin and exceptional length.

Deep ruby in colour, with dark cherry, turned earth and subtle root vegetable aromatics, this is a Grenache of remarkable concentration and restraint.

Its defining character is structure and persistence. Layers of fine, firm tannin move across the palate in waves, carrying the wine's savoury, slightly saline character through an exceptionally long finish.

Rob believes 2025 is the finest vintage we've ever made at Aphelion. Wait is one of its most compelling expressions.

97 points - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
96+ points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

"A Wine of the Year contender" - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front.

Why Choose Wait Single Site Grenache 2025?

97 Points - Halliday Wine Companion
Outstanding critical recognition for this old-vine, single-vineyard Grenache from Blewitt Springs.

96+ Points - The Wine Front
Campbell Mattinson identified Wait 2025 as a contender for Wine of the Year, placing it among the most exciting wines of the vintage.

Old Bush Vines - Planted in the Mid-1940s
Sourced exclusively from the Wait family's dry-grown Top Bush block, where old vines produce small berries with remarkable flavour intensity and tannin structure.

100% Whole Bunch
Hand-picked Grenache, fermented entirely as whole bunches and matured in large-format neutral French oak.

Only 1,200 Bottles
A genuinely limited Single Site release, with just 50 Magnums produced separately.

Made for the Long Game
The most structural and savoury expression in our Single Site range, with the concentration, tannin and freshness to evolve beautifully through 2038.

Complimentary Limited Time 2025 Single Site Companion

Exclusively Available Direct From Aphelion Only

Every purchase of the new Single Site Grenache 2025 Collection made direct from Aphelion will receive, completely free of charge, three special launch edition time-limited bonuses:

• A full Enjoyment Guide;
• A perfectly paired Recipe card;
• A Taste Over Time card. 

Limited Time Only

Available for qualifying purchases until Monday 2 November at 11:59pm Adelaide time. The wines themselves remain available after the bonuses expire, subject to stock. 

About the Companion:

• Single Site Grenache Enjoyment Guide

Includes paired music Spotify playlist, how to serve your Single Site's so they show at their best, each wine's characteristics at a glance, ideas to open all four at home.

• Inspiring, Perfectly Paired Recipe Card

A simply delicious meal suggestion that is easy to make and sure to please. Included in your box with our compliments. 

• A Taste Over Time Card.

Record how your Single Site's evolve over time by recording what you notice each time you try them. A  Taste Over Time card will be included in your box. 

Meet Wait Single Site Grenache 2025

What can an 80-year-old Grenache vine tell you about the place where it grows?

In the northeast corner of Blewitt Springs, the Wait family tends a remarkable parcel of old Grenache bush vines known as the Top Bush block.

Planted in the mid-1940s, these vines have lived through decades of McLaren Vale seasons. Hot summers. Cool winters. Years of abundance and years of very little rain.

They are dry-grown, relying on the natural rainfall and moisture held within the vineyard soils rather than irrigation.

And they produce something extraordinary.

Small berries. Concentrated flavours. Prominent, beautifully persistent tannins.

For Rob, the Wait vineyard consistently produces one of the most distinctive Grenaches in the Aphelion range. It is often the most structural, the most savoury and the most brooding in character.

Where some Grenache wines announce themselves with bright fruit and exuberant perfume, Wait asks for a little more attention.

There is dark cherry, certainly. But also turned earth, root vegetables, briar and a savoury, almost saline quality that runs right through the wine.

And then there are the tannins.

They don't simply frame the fruit. They move across the palate in waves, revealing another layer of texture and flavour with each sip.

The 2025 vintage captures this character with extraordinary clarity.

It's a wine that rewards attention, patience and the pleasure of discovering something new each time you return to the glass.

What Does Wait Grenache 2025 Taste Like?

Deeply coloured with an intense ruby hue.

The aromatics are subtle at first, but remarkably deep. Turned earth, root vegetables and dark cherry emerge gradually, giving the wine a distinctive savoury, brooding character.

The palate is firm, concentrated and beautifully structured.

Dark fruit sits alongside earthy, briary flavours and a slightly saline edge. The tannins are particularly prominent, arriving in waves and carrying that savoury character across the palate with exceptional persistence.

There's richness here, but it isn't a wine defined by weight. Instead, its fascination comes from the interplay of flavour concentration, structure and length.

The finish is enduring, savoury and deeply satisfying.

Old-vine intensity. Earthy complexity. Tannins that seem to go on forever.

Made for the Table

Goes With Food

Sunday afternoon. Sausage and thyme ragù bubbling away. Nowhere else to be.

Put a big pot on the stove, open the Wait and invite a few of your favourite people over. The ragù needs a couple of hours. As it turns out, this Grenache loves a little time too.

By the time the pappardelle is ready, the kitchen smells incredible, someone's already cut the bread, and the Wait has begun revealing its layers of dark cherry, wild herbs and savoury spice.

Bring the whole pot to the table. Add parmesan with a generous hand. Pour another glass.

The rich, slow-cooked sauce is glorious with Wait's earthy depth and firm tannins. But the best part? Nobody's in any hurry to leave.

Goes With Cheese

Aged Comté. Crusty baguette. The delicious possibility of skipping dinner altogether.

There's a particular pleasure in cutting into a wedge of beautifully aged Comté. Those tiny crunchy crystals, the nutty, almost caramelised flavours, the way one little piece inevitably becomes three.

Add a warm baguette, perhaps a handful of toasted walnuts, and pour a glass of Wait.

The cheese's buttery richness meets the wine's savoury depth, while those persistent tannins find their perfect companion. Try a sip before the cheese, then another afterwards. Notice how the fruit seems to come forward.

It's the sort of pairing that begins as a little something before dinner and ends with someone saying, "Do we actually need to cook?"

Goes With Music

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms.

It's getting late. The plates have been cleared, but nobody's moved from the table. Someone puts on Nick Cave. That unmistakable piano begins, and for a few minutes, the room seems to settle into the music.

Into My Arms is beautiful because it never tries too hard. Just piano, that extraordinary voice, and a melody that reveals its emotional weight as the song unfolds.

Wait has something of that same quiet intensity. Its dark fruit and earthy aromatics don't give everything away at once. With each return to the glass, another layer emerges. And those long, finely woven tannins linger like the final piano notes.

Some wines are made for the party. This one's for the wonderful part afterwards, when the conversation gets interesting and nobody wants the evening to end.

Goes With Life

For the friends who feel like family. And the evenings you wish you could make last a little longer.

There's something rather lovely about opening a bottle from vines that have been growing for more than 80 years with people you've known for almost as long.

The friends who know all your stories, but still laugh when you tell them again. Who help themselves to another slice of cheese, argue affectionately about the music, and always seem to stay for one more glass.

Wait is made for those evenings. Give it some air, let it unfold over dinner, and see how it changes as the conversation wanders.

Or keep a bottle for yourself. A rainy Sunday, a favourite book, a good chair by the window. Pour a glass now and another in an hour. Discover something different each time.

Because the best moments aren't always the ones you planned. Sometimes they're the ones you gave yourself time to enjoy.

Make Moments Count.

Discover the 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection

One extraordinary vintage. Four remarkable sites. Four distinctly different expressions of Grenache.

Rob believes 2025 is Aphelion's finest vintage yet. The most rewarding way to explore that belief is to taste the vineyards alongside one another.

Our 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection brings together one bottle each of:

• Wait - Blewitt Springs: Old-vine Grenache with extraordinary savoury depth, power and structure. A Wine of the Year contender according to Campbell Mattinson. 97 Halliday · 96+ Wine Front.
• Plaisted's - Blewitt Springs: From vines planted in 1947. Perfumed, tightly wound and built to reveal itself over time. 96 Wine Front · 94+ Halliday.
• Hickinbotham - Clarendon: High-elevation Grenache with savoury precision, vibrant red fruit, crystalline acidity and intricate tannins. 96 Halliday · 96 Wine Front.
• Brini - Blewitt Springs: An elegant, aromatic expression with dark fruit, floral lift and mineral tension. 96 Halliday · 95+ Wine Front.

Four vineyards. One extraordinary vintage. Four very different personalities.

All four are tightly wound, structured wines that reward curiosity, generous air and time.

Taste them side by side. Share them with friends. Discover which vineyard speaks to you.

EXPLORE THE 2025 SINGLE SITE GRENACHE COLLECTION →

Buy Direct from the Aphelion Family Winery

When you buy Wait Single Site Grenache direct from Aphelion, you're supporting the small family winery that works with the Wait family to bring this remarkable old-vine vineyard to life in the bottle.

You're buying from the people who know the vineyard, picked the fruit, made the wine and chose the moment it was ready to share.

You'll also find our complete Grenache range, including limited releases and access to wines that may never reach retail shelves.

Thank you for supporting our family winery directly.

Our Bottled Sunshine Wine Club members enjoy exclusive and pre-release wines, early access to new releases and events, 10% off additional purchases and free shipping.

DISCOVER THE APHELION WINE CLUB →

More About Wait Single Site Grenache 2025

Questions About Wait Single Site Grenache 2025

About Aphelion Wine Co.

Aphelion is a small, family-owned winery in McLaren Vale, South Australia, founded by Rob and Louise Mack.

Grenache has been our focus since our first vintage in 2014. We work closely with growers and make small batches from remarkable vineyards, allowing differences in place and season to remain visible in the finished wine.

We believe great wine belongs at the table, shared with good food, good people and conversations worth having.

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

Clarendon Single Site Grenache 2025 | 96 Points | Only 1,200 Bottles

HICKINBOTHAM VINEYARD · BLOCKS 111-113 · CLARENDON · McLAREN VALE

High elevation. Long, slow ripening. Extraordinary precision.

Aphelion Hickinbotham Single Site Grenache Noir 2025 is a premium McLaren Vale Grenache from the highest, south-facing blocks of the celebrated Hickinbotham vineyard in Clarendon, South Australia.

The highest-altitude wine in our 2025 Single Site Grenache range, Hickinbotham brings together vibrant cranberry and cherry fruit, savoury herbs, lifted florals and a beautifully intricate framework of tannin.

Its defining character is energy and precision. The long, cool ripening season gives the wine remarkable flavour development without sacrificing freshness.

Rob believes 2025 is the finest vintage we've ever made at Aphelion. This is a compelling expression of why.

96 points - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
96 points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

"It's quite exquisite, really."
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

Why Choose Hickinbotham Single Site Grenache 2025?

96 Points - Halliday Wine Companion
Marcus Ellis praises the wine's savoury complexity, vibrant red fruit, grippy natural tannins and crystalline precision.

96 Points - The Wine Front
Campbell Mattinson calls Hickinbotham an exquisite Grenache, highlighting its fragrant fruit, remarkable structure and beautifully interwoven tannins.

One Remarkable Site - Clarendon
Sourced exclusively from Blocks 111-113 at the highest elevation of the Hickinbotham vineyard, with a southerly aspect that protects the fruit from the hottest afternoon sun.

100% Whole Bunch
Hand-picked Grenache, fermented entirely as whole bunches and matured in large-format neutral French oak.

Only 1,200 Bottles
A tiny Single Site release, with just 50 Magnums produced separately.

Built to Evolve
A tightly structured, medium-bodied Grenache with vibrant acidity and excellent cellaring potential through 2035.

Meet Hickinbotham Single Site Grenache 2025

What happens when Grenache is given all the time it needs?

At the highest point of the Hickinbotham vineyard in Clarendon, the vines look south.

That seemingly simple detail makes an extraordinary difference.

While much of McLaren Vale enjoys the full warmth of the afternoon sun, these vines receive a little respite. Their fruit ripens slowly, holding onto freshness while developing the remarkable flavour complexity that comes with a long season on the vine.

In fact, Hickinbotham is the last Grenache we harvest.

For Rob, this is one of the most compelling expressions of Grenache in McLaren Vale. A wine that shows how altitude, aspect and patience can create depth without weight, structure without heaviness and freshness without sacrificing flavour.

The 2025 vintage captures that balance beautifully.

There's bright red fruit, a wild herbal edge, fine spice and an almost crystalline quality to the acidity. But the real fascination lies in the tannins, which weave through the wine, providing shape, persistence and the promise of further complexity with time.

It's Grenache with both vitality and quiet authority.

Complimentary Limited Time 2025 Single Site Companion

Exclusively Available Direct From Aphelion Only

Every purchase of the new Single Site Grenache 2025 Collection made direct from Aphelion will receive, completely free of charge, three special launch edition time-limited bonuses:

• A full Enjoyment Guide;
• A perfectly paired Recipe card;
• A Taste Over Time card. 

Limited Time Only

Available for qualifying purchases until Monday 2 November at 11:59pm Adelaide time. The wines themselves remain available after the bonuses expire, subject to stock. 

About the Companion:

• Single Site Grenache Enjoyment Guide

Includes paired music Spotify playlist, how to serve your Single Site's so they show at their best, each wine's characteristics at a glance, ideas to open all four at home.

• Inspiring, Perfectly Paired Recipe Card

A simply delicious meal suggestion that is easy to make and sure to please. Included in your box with our compliments. 

• A Taste Over Time Card.

Record how your Single Site's evolve over time by recording what you notice each time you try them. A  Taste Over Time card will be included in your box. 

What Does Hickinbotham Grenache 2025 Taste Like?

Bright, vibrant purple in the glass, with lifted aromas of cranberry, bramble and cherry.

The medium-bodied palate brings just-ripe strawberry, rosehip and blood orange, with savoury herbs and fine spice adding complexity.

Look a little closer and you'll find redcurrant, ginger, cinnamon, pink peppercorn and dried florals. There's an earthy, almost suede-like savouriness beneath the fresh fruit.

Its defining feature is the structure. Fine but firm, web-like tannins run through the palate, supported by ripe natural acidity that gives the wine remarkable precision and energy.

The finish is long, savoury and beautifully controlled.

Freshness and depth. Fragrance and structure. Power expressed through finesse.

Made for the Table

Goes With Food

Vegetable lasagne with a rich béchamel.

The sweetness of slow-cooked tomatoes and roasted vegetables brings out Hickinbotham's cherry and strawberry fruit, while the creamy béchamel softens the wine's firm tannins.

Its bright acidity cuts through the richness, and the savoury herbal characters complement the earthy flavours of the vegetables.

A lovely example of why Grenache doesn't need red meat to shine at the table.

Goes With Cheese

Crémeux d'Affinois with seed and fruit crackers.

The luxurious creaminess of this soft French cheese provides a gentle counterpoint to Hickinbotham's firm tannin structure.

The fruit crackers pick up its cranberry and cherry notes, while the seeds complement the wine's savoury, herbal character.

Richness meets freshness, with neither overwhelming the other.

Goes With Music

Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody).

There's a wonderful sense of balance in this song. Its deceptively simple, repeating bassline and bright, interlocking instrumental parts create something much more emotionally resonant than their individual elements suggest.

Hickinbotham works in a similar way.

The vibrant red fruit catches your attention first, but it's the interplay of savoury herbs, precise acidity and beautifully woven tannins that gives the wine its lasting fascination.

Both the song and the wine have energy without urgency, complexity without excess and an unmistakable sense of place.

Sometimes the most memorable things are the ones that feel perfectly balanced.

Goes With Life

A very good friend's party. Or a midweek dinner that deserves a better bottle.

There's something special about bringing a wine that has a story to tell without needing to dominate the conversation.

At a friend's dinner, Hickinbotham is the bottle that starts a discussion about vineyards, vintage and why two Grenaches from the same region can taste so different.

At home on a Wednesday, it's a reminder that you don't need a grand occasion to open something remarkable.

Put the lasagne in the oven. Pour a glass. Give the wine time to open while dinner finishes cooking.

Make Moments Count.

Discover the 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection

One extraordinary vintage. Four remarkable sites. Four distinctly different expressions of Grenache.

Rob believes 2025 is Aphelion's finest vintage yet. The most rewarding way to explore that belief is to taste the vineyards alongside one another.

Our 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection brings together one bottle each of:

• Hickinbotham - Clarendon: The highest-altitude wine of the four, with savoury precision, vibrant red fruit, crystalline acidity and intricate tannins. 96 Halliday · 96 Wine Front.
• Wait - Blewitt Springs: Old-vine Grenache with extraordinary perfume, power and structure. A Wine of the Year contender according to Campbell Mattinson. 97 Halliday · 96+ Wine Front.
• Plaisted's - Blewitt Springs: From vines planted in 1947. Perfumed, tightly wound and built to reveal itself over time. 96 Wine Front · 94+ Halliday.
• Brini - Blewitt Springs: The most elegant and aromatic of the four, with dark fruit, floral lift and mineral tension. 96 Halliday · 95+ Wine Front.

Four vineyards. One extraordinary vintage. Four very different personalities.

All four are tightly wound, structured wines that reward curiosity, generous air and time.

Taste them side by side. Share them with friends. Discover which vineyard speaks to you.

EXPLORE THE 2025 SINGLE SITE GRENACHE COLLECTION →

Buy Direct from the Aphelion Family Winery

When you buy Hickinbotham Single Site Grenache direct from Aphelion, you're supporting the small family winery that selected these remarkable vineyard blocks and made this wine.

You're buying from the people who know the vineyard, picked the fruit, made the wine and chose the moment it was ready to share.

You'll also find our complete Grenache range, including limited releases and access to wines that may never reach retail shelves.

Thank you for supporting our family winery directly.

Our Bottled Sunshine Wine Club members enjoy exclusive and pre-release wines, early access to new releases and events, 10% off additional purchases and free shipping.

DISCOVER THE APHELION WINE CLUB →

More About Hickinbotham Single Site Grenache 2025

Questions About Hickinbotham Single Site Grenache 2025

About Aphelion Wine Co.

Aphelion is a small, family-owned winery in McLaren Vale, South Australia, founded by Rob and Louise Mack.

Grenache has been our focus since our first vintage in 2014. We work closely with growers and make small batches from remarkable vineyards, allowing differences in place and season to remain visible in the finished wine.

We believe great wine belongs at the table, shared with good food, good people and conversations worth having.

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

Blewitt Springs Single Site Grenache 2025 | 96 Points | 1,200 Bottles

BRINI VINEYARD · UPPER TANK BLOCK · BLEWITT SPRINGS · McLAREN VALE

One remarkable vineyard. One extraordinary vintage.

Aphelion Brini Single Site Grenache Noir 2025 is a premium $90 McLaren Vale Grenache from the upper tank block of the Brini family's Blewitt Springs vineyard.

Darker and more brooding than previous, cooler Brini vintages, yet still the most elegant and aromatic of our four 2025 Single Site Grenache's in the Collectioin. A classically Blewitt Springs expression, with lifted perfume, dark cherry, plum, savoury spice and finely structured tannins.

Rob believes 2025 is the finest vintage we've ever made at Aphelion. Brini is one compelling reason why.

96 points - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
95+ points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

Why Choose Brini Single Site Grenache 2025?

96 Points · Halliday Wine Companion
Marcus Ellis highlights its layered dark fruit, ripe, fine yet pithy tannins and energising acidity.

95+ Points · The Wine Front
Campbell Mattinson describes a steely, mineral and floral Grenache of fabulous quality.

One Remarkable Site · Blewitt Springs
From the upper tank block of the Brini family vineyard, in the northeastern corner of Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale.

100% Whole Bunch
Hand-picked Grenache, fermented entirely as whole bunches and matured in large-format neutral French oak.

Only 1,200 Bottles
A tiny Single Site release, with a further 50 Magnums bottled separately.

Drink Now–2038
A tightly structured Grenache with the potential to evolve beautifully over time. Give it generous air if opening young.

Meet Brini Single Site Grenache 2025

Some vineyards become part of your story. Others help write it.

The Brini family's vineyard has been part of Aphelion since our first vintage in 2014. Its Grenache remains a cornerstone of Confluence, the wine that first introduced so many people to our little winery.

But high on the vineyard, the upper tank block has a personality all its own.

The sandy-based loam soils give us Grenache with intensity and depth. In 2025, that familiar character is darker and more brooding than in previous, cooler vintages, with black cherry, plum and dark spice.

Yet among our four 2025 Single Site Grenaches, Brini remains the most elegant and aromatic — a beautiful expression of the perfume, finesse and vitality we love about Blewitt Springs.

It's a wine of contrasts: dark fruit and lifted florals, fine tannins and vibrant acidity, immediate intrigue and layers that take time to reveal themselves.

The kind of wine that rewards curiosity.

Complimentary Limited Time 2025 Single Site Companion

Exclusively Available Direct From Aphelion Only

Every purchase of the new Single Site Grenache 2025 Collection made direct from Aphelion will receive, completely free of charge, three special launch edition time-limited bonuses:

• A full Enjoyment Guide;
• A perfectly paired Recipe card;
• A Taste Over Time card. 

Limited Time Only

Available for qualifying purchases until Monday 2 November at 11:59pm Adelaide time. The wines themselves remain available after the bonuses expire, subject to stock. 

About the Companion:

• Single Site Grenache Enjoyment Guide

Includes paired music Spotify playlist, how to serve your Single Site's so they show at their best, each wine's characteristics at a glance, ideas to open all four at home.

• Inspiring, Perfectly Paired Recipe Card

A simply delicious meal suggestion that is easy to make and sure to please. Included in your box with our compliments. 

• A Taste Over Time Card.

Record how your Single Site's evolve over time by recording what you notice each time you try them. A  Taste Over Time card will be included in your box. 

What Does Brini Grenache 2025 Taste Like?

Brini opens with lifted aromas of cinnamon, damson plum, black cherry and dark spice, with floral notes and a wild, brambly edge.

Give it time in the glass and the details emerge: redcurrant, forest berries, mint, earthy undergrowth, cocoa and a savoury suggestion of Australian bush spice.

The medium-plus-bodied palate brings sweet cherry fruit balanced by a herbal, mineral edge. Ripe, fine yet pithy tannins give the wine its architecture, while energising acidity carries the flavours through a long, persistent finish.

There's darkness here, but not heaviness. Elegance, but certainly not fragility.

Brini is a wine of contrasts — and that's what makes it so compelling.

Made for the Table

Goes With Food

Grilled venison with juniper and spices.

The juniper echoes Brini's herbal, briary character, while the spices meet its lifted cinnamon and clove notes. The wine's tannins provide structure against the richness of the meat, and its cherry fruit offers a beautiful contrast to the savoury flavours.

Goes With Cheese

Crémeux d'Argental with fruit crackers.

The cheese's creamy texture softens the impression of Brini's prominent tannins. The fruit crackers pick up its cherry and plum notes, while the wine's savoury edge keeps the pairing balanced.

Goes With Music

The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden.

There's something wonderfully unforced about this song. The opening guitar groove draws you in without demanding attention, while the interlocking guitars keep revealing little details as the song rolls along.

Brini has a similar quality. Its lifted aromatics make the introduction, but it's the interplay of dark cherry, savoury herbs, spice and persistent tannin that holds your attention.

The music is relaxed; the wine has structure. Together, they're a reminder that complexity doesn't have to be complicated.

Goes With Life

The dinner that turns into a listening session.

Four friends around the table. The main course is finished, but the glasses aren't empty. Someone puts on a record. Someone else turns it over.

Brini is the bottle you keep returning to between conversations, discovering a little more each time.

And if the evening is yours alone? A favourite book, a comfortable chair and a glass worth paying attention to will do nicely.

Make Moments Count.

Discover the 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection

One extraordinary vintage. Four remarkable sites. Four distinctly different expressions of Grenache.

Rob believes 2025 is Aphelion's finest vintage yet. The most rewarding way to explore that belief is to taste the vineyards alongside one another.

Our 2025 Single Site Grenache Collection brings together one bottle each of:

• Brini - Blewitt Springs: The most elegant and aromatic of the four, with dark fruit, floral lift and mineral tension. 96 Halliday · 95+ Wine Front.
• Wait - Blewitt Springs: Old-vine Grenache with extraordinary perfume, power and structure. A Wine of the Year contender according to Campbell Mattinson. 97 Halliday · 96+ Wine Front.
• Plaisted - Blewitt Sands: From vines planted in 1947. Perfumed, tightly wound and built to reveal itself over time. 96 Wine Front · 94+ Halliday.
• Hickinbotham - Clarendon: High, south-facing vineyard blocks producing savoury, precise Grenache with crystalline acidity and firm, web-like tannins. 96 Halliday · 96 Wine Front.

Four vineyards. One extraordinary vintage. Four very different personalities.

All four are tightly wound, structured wines with the potential to evolve through 2038. They reward curiosity, generous air and time - whether that's an evening watching the wine unfold in your glass or years resting quietly in your cellar.

Taste them side by side. Share them with friends. Discover which vineyard speaks to you.

EXPLORE THE 2025 SINGLE SITE GRENACHE COLLECTION →

Buy Direct from the Aphelion Family Winery

When you buy Brini Single Site Grenache direct from Aphelion, you're supporting the small family winery that has worked with this remarkable vineyard since our first vintage.

You're buying from the people who know the grower, picked the fruit, made the wine and chose the moment it was ready to share.

You'll also find our complete Grenache range, including limited releases and access to wines that may never reach retail shelves.

Thank you for supporting our family winery directly.

Our Bottled Sunshine Wine Club members enjoy exclusive and pre-release wines, early access to new releases and events, 10% off additional purchases and free shipping.

DISCOVER THE APHELION WINE CLUB →

More About Brini Single Site Grenache 2025

Questions About Brini Single Site Grenache 2025

About Aphelion Wine Co.

Aphelion is a small, family-owned winery in McLaren Vale, South Australia, founded by Rob and Louise Mack in 2014.

Grenache has been our focus since our first vintage in 2014. We work closely with growers and make small batches from remarkable vineyards, allowing differences in place and season to remain visible in the finished wine.

We believe great wine belongs at the table, shared with good food, good people and conversations worth having.

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

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

Aphelion Confluence Grenache Noir 2025 is a $42 McLaren Vale Grenache made predominantly from Blewitt Springs fruit, with a touch of Clarendon, and awarded 95 points by Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion.

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.

It begins with restraint and keeps building - layer upon layer, tension upon tension - much like Confluence as it opens in the glass. What starts savoury and brooding becomes increasingly expressive, before that long, insistent finish refuses to disappear quietly.

Goes With Life

The dinner that wasn’t meant to go this long.

You booked for 7. It’s now pushing 10. The plates have been cleared, nobody’s checking the time, and someone asks the question every good dinner eventually gets to:

“Should we get another bottle?”

Confluence is that bottle.

Interesting enough to keep you coming back to the glass. Easy enough that the conversation never has to stop for it.

Because sometimes the moments worth counting are the ones you didn’t plan.

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.

Choose Confluence if you want:

a premium McLaren Vale Grenache that's drinking beautifully now; a savoury rather than sweet expression of Grenache; a highly rated Australian red under $50; or an introduction to Aphelion before exploring our Single Site Grenaches.

Looking for something different?

If you'd like to explore how individual vineyards change Grenache, discover our Single Site Grenache Collection. If you're looking for our most cellar-worthy expression, discover Rapture Old Vine Grenache.

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.

DISCOVER THE APHELION WINE CLUB →

Buy Confluence Grenache Noir 2025 Direct From The Aphelion Family Winery Online

Ready to pour?

Choose a single bottle, 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.

Psst... Like the sound of exclusive wines, early access and free shipping? Our Wine Club members receive exclusive access to new and limited releases, complimentary tastings and member benefits.

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.

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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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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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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Blewitt Springs Single Site Grenache | 95 Points | Only 800 Bottles

BRINI VINEYARD · UPPER TANK BLOCK · BLEWITT SPRINGS · McLAREN VALE

Aphelion Brini Single Site Grenache 2024 is a $90 premium McLaren Vale Grenache made from one specific block within the Brini family's vineyard in Blewitt Springs.

Dark-fruited, savoury and brooding, with 100% whole-bunch fermentation and just 800 bottles produced.

95 points - Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate
95 points - Huon Hooke, The Real Review

Meet Brini Single Site Grenache 2024

We've known this block from the beginning.

Fruit from the Brini family's vineyard has been part of Aphelion since our first vintage and remains one of the building blocks of Confluence Grenache.

But the upper tank block has a personality worth seeing on its own.

Of our Single Site Grenaches, Brini is the roundest and most intense: darker fruit, earth, spice and forest-floor complexity wrapped around a savoury, structured core.

And the 2024 vintage gave us a particularly fascinating expression of the site.

The vineyard didn't change. The block didn't change. Rob's approach didn't change.

The season did.

Why Buy Brini Single Site Grenache 2024?

📍 One Site · Blewitt Springs
From the upper tank block of the Brini family's vineyard, on sandy-based loam soils in one of McLaren Vale's most prized Grenache subregions.

🥇 95 + 95 Points
95 points from Erin Larkin for Robert Parker Wine Advocate and 95 points from Huon Hooke for The Real Review.

🍇 100% Whole Bunch
Fermented entirely as whole bunches before élevage in neutral old French oak puncheons.

✨ Only 800 Bottles
A genuinely tiny release from one specific block within one vineyard.

🌿 Unfiltered · Unfined · Vegan
Made with a gentle hand and bottled under Diam Origine.

🍷 $90 per bottle
A Single Site Grenache for drinkers who want to explore what happens when one place, one season and one winemaking approach are allowed to speak for themselves.

What Does Brini Grenache 2024 Taste Like?

Brini has always been the darker, rounder and more brooding member of our Single Site family.

The 2024 vintage brings pressed flowers, pomegranate and redcurrant alongside darker fruit, with clove, ash and savoury spice adding complexity.

The tannins are particularly interesting this year — sinewy, structured and textural, giving the wine an almost mineral firmness.

There's tart raspberry, savoury spice and an earthy edge underneath it all.

This isn't Grenache built around sweetness or sheer weight.

It's a wine that makes you lean back towards the glass.

One Block. One Season. A Different Brini.

One of the most compelling things about Single Site wine is discovering what changes when almost everything else stays the same.

Rob made the 2024 Brini in the same way as previous vintages.

Same vineyard.
Same upper block.
Same 100% whole bunch.
Same old puncheons.

Yet the tannins and whole-bunch character of the 2024 feel markedly different.

When Erin Larkin tasted the wine, the texture made her wonder whether Rob had changed the maturation vessel. He hadn't.

Her conclusion was much more interesting:

what we're tasting is the impact of the season.

That's why we make Single Site Grenache.

Not to make the same wine every year, but to give a remarkable place enough space for the differences to show.

Made for the Table

Goes With Food

Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with rosemary, garlic and charred edges.

Brini has the depth for slow-cooked meat, while its savoury whole-bunch spice and fine tannin cut through richness and keep the next mouthful — and the next glass — interesting.

Goes With Cheese

Aged Comté or earthy washed-rind cheese.

The nuttiness and savoury depth of the cheese meet Brini's earth, spice and forest-floor characters rather than competing with its perfume.

Goes With Music

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Red Right Hand.

Dark, restrained and immediately a little mysterious. The opening creates tension before the song slowly reveals more of itself — much like Brini's brooding first impression.

Then there's that rasp and menace running through the middle: a neat musical counterpart to the wine's savoury whole-bunch spice and sinewy tannin.

Neither needs to shout to hold your attention.

Fits In With Life

Dinner for four, when you've actually got time to talk.

Something slow-cooked in the middle of the table. Phones have disappeared. Nobody is waiting for the next booking.

You pour Brini because tonight there is time to notice the wine change in the glass — and enough conversation that nobody needs to turn it into a tasting exercise.

A good bottle. A small table. A long conversation.

Make Moments Count.

Brini or Confluence?

Confluence shows what happens when remarkable sites come together. Brini shows what happens when we zoom right in.

Buy Brini Direct from the Aphelion Family Winery

Only 800 bottles of Brini Single Site Grenache 2024 were produced.

When you buy direct from Aphelion, you're buying from the small family winery that made the wine — closer to the vineyard, the grower, the winemaking and the story behind the bottle.

It's also where you'll find our complete Grenache range and receive first access to tiny releases that may never make it as far as retail.

Thank you for supporting our family winery directly.

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About Aphelion Wine Co.

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

We work closely with growers and make small batches from remarkable vineyards and specific sites, allowing differences in place and season to remain visible in the finished wine.

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

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Clarendon Old Vine Grenache | Two 97-Point Scores | Halliday Top 100 | Only 92 Dozen Bottles

HICKINBOTHAM VINEYARD · BLOCK 301 · CLARENDON · McLAREN VALE

Aphelion Rapture Old Vine Grenache Noir 2024 is our pinnacle McLaren Vale Grenache, made from 100% Grenache grown in one 0.9-hectare block of dry-grown bush vines planted in 1962.

Brooding fruit, herbal spice and cherry-pip flavours, with savoury depth, confident tannins and exceptional length. Matured in a cocciopesto amphora, with just 1,100 bottles produced.

97 points · Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
97 points · Erin Larkin, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
Halliday Top 100 Wines 2026 · Red Wines $50 and Over
Shortlisted for Halliday Wine Companion 2027 Grenache of the Year ♥

“I was blown away. This wine is seriously good”
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front · 96 points

Meet Rapture Old Vine Grenache Noir 2024

Some bottles are worth making a little time for.

A dinner you’ve been looking forward to. A birthday worth gathering everyone for. Or a quiet evening when you finally open the bottle you’ve been saving.

Rapture is our pinnacle Grenache, made only in years when we have fruit of the quality it requires. Rob’s job is to bring out what makes this small Clarendon block remarkable.

Old vines. A particular hillside. A wine with plenty to say.

And the best place to discover it is around your own table.

Why Buy Rapture Old Vine Grenache 2024?

📍 One Block · Clarendon · Vines Planted in 1962
From Hickinbotham Block 301: 0.9 hectares of dry-grown Grenache bush vines. A precise origin gives you a place to picture and a story to share.

🥇 97 + 97 Points
Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion and Erin Larkin for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. Two independent reference points when you’re choosing a special bottle.

🏆 Halliday Top 100 Wines 2026
Selected among the Halliday Tasting Team’s 20 best Australian red wines over $50. Also shortlisted for Halliday Wine Companion 2027 Grenache of the Year.

🍇 20% Whole Bunch · Cocciopesto Maturation
Whole clusters contribute to the wine’s structure and savoury detail. Maturation in a Drunk Turtle cocciopesto vessel keeps the focus on the fruit and its natural tannins.

✨ Only 1,100 Bottles
A small release from one block and one harvest, with the structure to continue evolving through to 2040.

🌿 Unfiltered · Unfined · Vegan
Bottled in February 2025 under DIAM Origine cork.

🍷 $150 per bottle
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What Does Rapture Grenache 2024 Taste Like?

Pour it and you’ll see a vibrant purple hue.

The aromas are brooding but fleshy, with herbal spice. Cherry-pip flavours wash across the mid-palate, carried by tannins that are prominent without dominating.

Then comes that long, savoury finish. The kind that has you pausing before the next mouthful.

There’s depth and structure here, with plenty to explore over a meal. Bottle age will reveal more.

Take your time with it. That’s part of the pleasure.

One Small Hillside. More Than Six Decades of History.

Great wine begins with the people who care for the vineyard, long before the fruit reaches Rob’s hands.

Rapture 2024 comes from Hickinbotham Block 301 in Clarendon, where dry-grown Grenache bush vines have grown since 1962.

It is a gently north-facing slope, 225–230 metres above sea level, with brown clay loam over weathered and broken siltstone.

Just 0.9 hectares. Small enough to have a very particular identity.

We believe great Grenache should taste of its vineyard. Every decision, from hand-picking to maturation in cocciopesto, serves that intention.

When you open Rapture, this is the place you’re discovering.

Made for the Table

Goes With Food

Roasted lamb shoulder, mash and jus.

You’ve waited all afternoon for that lamb. Give it a wine worth waiting for. Rapture’s tannins balance the richness, and its savoury flavours love those browned edges. Don’t be shy with the jus.

Goes With Cheese

Aged gouda with fruit crackers.

Dinner’s finished. Nobody’s leaving. Nutty aged gouda brings out Rapture’s savoury side, while the fruit crackers play beautifully with its cherry flavours. Stay a little longer.

Goes With Music

“Valerie” by Amy Winehouse.

Soulful, full of character and a little cheeky. A good match for a Grenache with this much personality. Turn it up. Kitchen dancing encouraged.

Goes With Life

A milestone moment. Or to make an everyday moment unforgettable.

The anniversary dinner you’re cooking at home. A birthday with your favourite people. Sunday lunch, when nobody has anywhere else to be.

Open something you’ve been looking forward to. Put it in the middle of the table. There’s your occasion.

Make moments count.

Rapture or Brini?

Two particular sites. Two different expressions. Choose the story and style that interest you most.

Buy Rapture Direct from the Aphelion Family Winery

Buying direct brings you closer to the people who made your wine.

Ask us when to open it, what to cook or whether it suits the person you’re buying for. You get personal guidance from our team and a clear connection to the vineyard, grower and winemaking behind your bottle.

Your purchase also supports our small family winery’s work with remarkable vineyards and passionate growers. Every bottle is a vote for the kind of wine industry you want to see.

Choose 1, 3, 6 or 12 bottles above and add Rapture 2024 to your cart. One for a special meal, or several to see how it changes over time. You can buy direct without joining the Wine Club.

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About Aphelion Wine Co.

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

Founded by Louise Rhodes Mack and Rob Mack, we work closely with growers and make small batches from remarkable vineyards, bringing their stories to your table.

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