Twelve Staves was founded by a group of twelve wine and food lovers, bonded by their passion to produce and promote the best of Australian varietal styles, both nationally and internationally. Their first vintage was released in 1997. They chose Grenache as their flagship wine and, with its award-winning success, have ventured out into producing a Shiraz.
Twelve Staves believes the "terrior" to be the greatest influence on the final taste of the wine. Twelve Staves Grenache is sourced from a single, old, low-yielding, dry grown McLaren Vale vineyard, 70 years of age. Its Mediterranean climate, gently sloping hills, and ideal rainfall stamps its unique mark on the wine year after year.
Grenache can be a bastard child; extremely vintage-sensitive and prone to over cropping which, if not dealt with accordingly, can create problems with diluted fruit. Not so here. The vines are hand-pruned and at vintage time pickers carefully harvest the ripe bunches. The fruit is carefully handled to encourage the vines to work their magic again the next year.
Old-vine Grenache is slowly building momentum out of Australia as a national treasure.
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