Pare "Douglas Gully Vineyard" Grenache 2023 - McLaren Vale, Australia

95/100 Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
92/100 Aaron Brasher, The Real Review

Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion "One of two grenaches from Blewitt Springs in the Pare range, this is off 1948 vines and is the more brooding, rumbling along in low gear, with fruits both red and black. That’s not to say it doesn’t have the same refinement of making (about half whole bunch, gentle extraction and élevage in neutral puncheons) or expression, just that the site, also on Maslin Sands, speaks in a different key. Red and black cherry, red plum, spices in the star anise, cassia bark, brown cardamom zone, with distinct bass notes to both flavour and feel."

Aaron Brasher, The Real Review "Lifted aromas of cherry, spice, anise, dried herbs and violets. Sweet, fleshy and juicy on the palate. Quite fruit forward and plush, with lashings of red fruits, sweet spice and brambly wildness. The tannins are granular, textured and drying and the acidity has snap and crunch."

Australian Financial Review – Max Allen "Winemaker Ansel Ashby launched his first label, Gatch, in 2016 to produce wines that
were “fun, delicious, and not pretentious” – everyday drinking white and red that didn’t focus on variety or provenance. His latest venture, Pare, set up with business partner Andrew Williams, takes the opposite tack: serious, single-varietal wines from single, named vineyards. There are two grenaches in the line-up, both from blocks of old, dry-grown vines in the prized Blewitt Springs area of McLaren Vale. The 2023 Douglas Gully Vineyard Grenache, from vines planted in 1948 in deep sand, is very good – squashy blood plum fruit flavours and fine, chewy tannins, like sucking on a plum stone ......"

Pare wines was born from a friendship and desire to craft the finest wines from the Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale. Our wines are all single vineyard expressions of Chardonnay and Grenache. Each wine is hand crafted, using pared back winemaking to express the vineyards in their truest form.

The Douglas Gully vineyard was planted to Grenache in 1948. This vineyard is dry grown on bush vines in deep Maslin sands of Blewitt Springs. The resulting wine has concentrated dark brambly fruit with intensity and fine tannins.