2018 Yangarra High Sands Grenache 750Ml Bottle

96 points! French oak and ceramic egg for the maturation. Best block, highest elevation.1946 plantings. You could buy two bottles of the 19 Ovitelli and one of the 19 Hickinbotham for the same price as this, which is what I’d do, but we are all individuals. The High Sands is a darker, more brooding example of Grenache than the other two I mention, and quite different in style. Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Blackberry, ripe raspberry, sarsaparilla, spicy, with some sweet sawn wood top notes (though nothing overt, I might add). Powerful and firm, dusty and slightly rusty/ferrous tannin, chamomile tea mouth-perfume, maybe even a cola-nut exotic character in the mix, long and shapely, with Barolo-esque tannin to close. Feels long term. Outstanding.