Yangarra Estate Hickinbotham Clarendon Grenache 1.5L 2021 ca shitake and leather wax opens

shitake and leather wax opens into light perfumes of mulberry and blackberry juice with a hint of raspberry ice cream

a flash of silver

and then left on skins

A savoury nose of miso

often seen in the native surrounds of the Marlborough Sounds

Yangarra Estate Hickinbotham Clarendon Grenache 1.5L 2021 ca shitake and leather wax opensThe Hickinbotham vineyard in Clarendon is owned by the same Jackson Family that own Yangarra. Pete Fraser makes the Shiraz wines from that block for the Hickinbotham super premium releases. The same viticultural team works the vines on both sites. This isn't from the same sandy soils as the rest of the Yangarra Grenache wines but the quality and attention to detail is no different. This wine adds another highlight to the near peerless array of McLaren