Sons of Eden Notus Barossa Grenache 6pk 2022
Winemaker Corey Ryan and Viticulturist Simon Cowham are the ‘Sons of Eden’, who both learned and honed their skills in the Barossa Valley. The team focusses on varieties that the Barossa produces to the highest standards, such as Shiraz, Grenache and Mourvedre from the Barossa Valley as well as Riesling from the Eden Valley. Sons of Eden wines are crafted using carefully managed and selected fruit as well as a mixture of traditional and modern winemaking techniques. The wines are paying tribute to the pioneers, characters and rich traditions of the Barossa region.
Trophy & Top Gold | Winewise Small Vigneron Awards 2023
Sons of Eden Notus Barossa Grenache 2022
Deep purple-red colour, bright and youthful; the aroma is superbly intense and ripe, spicy and dark-cherry to cherry brandy aromas, a lick of oak adds an extra dimension, while the palate is intense and bold, long and ample, with excellent depth of flavour and abundant fine, supple tannins. Brandied cherry traces. Very impressive.
Rating: 94 Points
Source: Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Sons of Eden Notus Grenache 2022
I’ve not had this wine from SoE before. This is from a range of sub-regions (Trial Pass, Light Pass, Vine Vale), with the vines all 60+ years old, some 90+.
A bolder style of Grenache that lays on the ripe red berries, cherry liqueur, baking spice and dried herb. It’s fleshy and ripe, with plenty of grainy tannin to chew on, some choc-cherry flavour, balanced acidity, and spicy finish of good length, albeit maybe a little salty and drying. Good though. No shortage of impact. 93 Points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Sons of Eden Notus Barossa Grenache 2022
Medium-deep crimson, Intense raspberry, herb garden, aniseed aromas. Ripe and expressive wine with raspberry, strawberry fruits, lacy textures and fresh juicy acidity. Finishes chalky and minerally with a touch of mint.
Rating: 93 Points
Source: The Vintage Journal (Andrew Caillard MW & Angus Hughson)
Sons of Eden Notus Barossa Grenache 2022
This is good grenache, capturing the contemporary zeitgeist of crunchy red fruits melded to a raft of salty, gritty, thirst-slaking tannins, refined, impressive and strident. Full-bodied. Kirsch, clove and rosewater, just a little sweet of fruit and oak, feeling a bit torrefied. A work in progress, but a very good one.
Rating: 93 Points
Source: Ned Goodwin, James Suckling