I’ve got a tasting coming up for my U3A group. This forum has been very helpful in the past for suggestions both of wines and punning titles.
I’m intending doing Garnacha/Grenache.
I’d like recommendations, especially for varietal red & white wines.
Also, my last two tastings were titled punning on book titles (Price & Prejudice and Of Splice and Men). I’m having trouble with this one - best I’ve come up with Game, Set and Grenache after the Len Deighton trilogy Game, Set & Match. You can do better!
It’s not a book, and not quite a biblical quotation, but I quite like “Dust to Grenaches”
Edit: Well, actually there is a book “From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death”, but I think it would be wise to rather emphasise the terroir aspects of the title
Peter
I would recommend Thistledown wines imported by Alliance and made downunder by one of their directors, Giles Cooke MW.
We had a tasting of them locally, very good wines, made in a more terroir driven way from individual parcels etc. They are not the full on blockbusters you might expect.
Everything they had was good but I especially rated,
This Charming Man 2018, Clarendon McLaren vale
and She’s Electric 2018 Seaview McLaren vale
Both 100% Grenache. You can tell by the names that Giles is of a similar vintage to me.
Momento Grenache is superb. They also do a Grenache Gris. Marelise Niemann is an amazing winemaker. She used to be the winemaker at Beaumont before starting her own thing. She is a bit of a Grenache specialist.
Thanks, and yes to Cannonau as it is a synonym of black Garnacha.
Re the G Gris - I’d like to have a G Grif I could get it at £13.50 but I’d have to add £9 delivery to the price .
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a stockist for She’s Electric and it looks like Charming Man is only available in a six pack at £38 each.
@JayKay Thanks. Not only is it 100% Garnacha, and I can buy the one bottle I need form TWS but there’s no doubt it won’t burst the budget
Thanks, @Jcbl. A bit pricy here. I’ve used several David & Nadia wines in previous tasting (that had a bigger budget than U3A), but I’m in the Cape winelands next month so I’ll try and get a bottle there. But if it’s ‘totally atypical’ is it a good example to have in a tasting of Garnacha?