Clarendon Hills Cellar Mature Grand Cru Blewitt Springs Terroir Pack

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Clarendon Hills Cellar Mature Grand Cru Blewitt Springs Terroir Pack

Original price was: $2,100.00.Current price is: $500.00. / pack

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Im choosing to shine a spotlight on Cellar Mature exceptional, examples of McLaren Vale terroir that have blossomed in the cellar over the last 20 years. It’s the extended time in a cold cellar that allows the wine to evolve carefully and the terroir elements to eventually shine brightly and develop multiplicative extra layers, nuance and joy.

So, I’ve assembled the following pack containing Cellar Mature Grand Cru Terroirs of Blewitt Springs. Blewitt Springs is home to the most celebrated wines in all of McLaren Vale and cellaring 20 + years facilitates an opportunity to see the very best Grand Cru terroirs at full captivating flight. Included with every pack there’s 6 bottles of 2004 Romas Grenache  accompanied by 6 bottles of 2005 Onkaparinga Syrah. Both highly scored between 95 and 96/100 respectively by first class wine critics. Each absolutely demonstrates why we cellar our wines to achieve the highest degree of satisfaction and hedonism. Each terroir is unique and the wines in this pack demonstrate Blewitt Springs terroir diversity, ranging from deep sands and gravelly sands of the Romas vineyard to the ironstone rich soils with decomposed shale and quartz content found in the Onkaparinga Syrah.

The 2004 Romas Grenache was last reviewed by Erin Larkin in August 2025 and was scored 96/100 by Wine Advocate. It also comes packaged in a complementary collectors edition wooden 6x750ml case with lid. At 22 years of age, the terroir elements are at their peak expression and offering a transcendental experience.

The 2005 Onkaparinga Syrah is also scored 95/100 by the Wine Advocate. The Onkaparinga Syrah vineyard used to be sourced for the famous Penfolds Grange vineyard during the 1980 and 1990’s and is a pedigree Grand Cru Blewitt Springs terroir. At 21 years of age, it tastes like chocolate and bears the same texture. Absolutely superlative mineral elements are also now visible and the layers of minerals and roast meat and truffle are head shakingly good.

The Romas vineyard is 104 years old and the Onkaparinga Syrah vineyard just turned 86 years.  With all of the bottle age the vineyard’s earthy terroir minerals are now signing the most charming notes of where they originate.

While stocks last, I’ll also ship 2 bonus MAGNUMS of 21 year old 2005 Bakers Gully Syrah and twenty two year old 2004 Kangarilla Grenache with every pack.

Likewise, our Bakers Gully Syrah hailed from the edge of the Clarendon district and the Kangarilla Grenache hails from Kangarilla district, couple this with the Grand Cru’s of Blewitt Springs and you’re set for a sub regional deep dive tasting of McLaren Vale’s most celebrated and individual terroir districts.

That’s over $2100 of value for $500 with free shipping.

This pack is available only while stocks last to my Cellar Members.

Sante.

 

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Weight 21.46 kg

The 2005 Syrah Onkaparinga delivers scents of toasty oak, crushed rock, pencil lead, game, bacon, and blueberry. Voluptuous but impeccably balanced, it has enough structure to evolve for 8-10 years and should drink well through 2030.

95/100
2005 Onkaparinga Syrah

- Wine Advocate, Robert Parker

The 2004 Grenache Old Vines Romas Vineyard is richer and darker than the Blewitt Springs Grenache of the same vintage tasted alongside. It has notes of black cherry and pomegranate, blackberry and licorice. The tannins, as with the aforementioned cuvée, are sleek and shapely and draw the flavor out over the long finish. It is dark and brooding, perhaps, but elegant and long as well. Sealed under natural cork, poured from magnum.

The tasting at Clarendon Hills on Friday, August 8, was intense—42 wines of Grenache origin, tasted with Roman and Alex Bratasiuk of Clarendon Hills. Many of the bottles opened were from magnum, and where this was the case, it has been noted. It is clear that there has been a style shift at Clarendon Hills over the years, and in many cases, it can be clear to say that one has preference for one era over another. However, I found that the wines did not conform to my expectations of them, and so it was halfway through the tasting that I threw off the shackles of expectation and regarded each wine afresh. The earlier vintages, through the 1990s and early 2000s led me up and down through preferences, some vintages utterly scintillating and thrilling, others less so—for my tastes—and others still behaved in ways different to what the vintage may have indicated they might. For example, the 1994 Grenache, from a cool year picked in April, was astoundingly good—fine, ethereal, fresh and beautiful. The 2007 Romas—hailing from a dry, low-yielding and early season—was light and fine, structural and Pinot-like. It seems that these Grenache wines (Onkaparinga, Romas and Blewitt Springs) move into a different spectrum of elegance when they hit 10 to 15 years or older, which does beg the question around drinking windows. And specifically for this producer, are we recommending that we drink them too young? Perhaps. There is a tarry, resinous note—whether from oak or tannin I do not quite know—that assimilates into the wine over time, morphing into a licorice/clove/resin character in age. I like it as an older character, less so as a character in youth. These are quibbles, but in the context of the spectrum of 42 wines on this day, these are some of the observations that emerged.

- Wine Advocate, Erin Larkin

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