100y.o. Old Vines SC Pannell Grenache Latest Release

Super Specials

2025 Sorrenberg Beechworth Chardonnay
Offer: $99 | Extremely limited
Order via email: sales@randalls.net.au

Few Australian wineries inspire the loyalty and reverence granted to Sorrenberg. Hidden on the edge of Beechworth, the Morey family’s biodynamic estate continues to produce wines of quiet authority, always sought after and amongst the tip of the pyramid for their genre. We only have a case of this super sought-after chardonnay and don't expect it to stick around long! Cheers, Randall.

The 2025 presents a hint of flinty reduction that compliments (rather than masks) nuanced aromas of biscuit and lemon peel. There is restrained power on the palate with a chalky minerality and perceptible oak that falls in line with sandalwood and just-ripe pineapple, all kept on a direct track towards a long and rewarding finish. This is a wine which is obviously of noteworthy calibre, classy, and enjoyable now and no doubt in 5+ years!

2025 Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Chardonnay
Offer: $19.90

It's almost unbelievable how Hoddles Creek winery release wines of this lovely quality for the price, every year! This even ages well for 3-5 years..

"[..] Stone fruits and a little matchstick lead onto the light- to medium-bodied and very nicely balanced palate. I'll taste wines from the Yarra twice this price this year and that aren't as good!" 94Pts - Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion

2023 Warramate Red Blend
Offer: $32 | $29 in straight 6-packs

"A blend of 46/35/11/8% cabernet sauvignon/merlot/malbec/petit verdot. All the varieties are fermented in the Yarra Yering open-topped fermenters. Brightly coloured and lifted with aromas of red cherries, bell pepper and some light floral notes. Lighter-framed, gently leafy, harmonious and already a pleasure to drink."
93Pts. - Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion

SC Pannell new release Sunrise + Sunset Grenaches
from centurion vines!

When I tasted this new range of SC Pannel wines from 100y.o. vines I was blown-away by the class, reserved power,completeness and character of these reds. In fact, the whole range of grenaches have super-impressive depth and complex flavours with satisfying grip and energy. The 98+ points are indeed well-deserving here, and legendary bottles in the making. Cheers, Randall.

2023 SC Pannell Clarendon Smart Vineyard Grenache
$85
"This is incredibly silky and seamless, with notes of sweet pouch tobacco, pomegranate molasses, raspberry/rhubarb and paprika dolce tannins. The texture here is like Dutch cocoa..." 97Pts - Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

2023 SC Pannell Sunrise 100 Grenache
$249
"The second release from this home vineyard in Blewitt Springs. The 100 here references 100 years of vintages from these vines (omitting the fledgling unproductive years). All destemmed fruit, old oak, frugal quantities. This sits in a moodier, brooding zone – refined and unadorned, though – with dark red fruits corded into a structure of assertive natural tannin and energetic acidity. Air reveals dried cranberry and cherry, raspberry leaf tea, subdued souk spices, tobacco leaf, rusted iron, dried rose, bergamot, a brooding malty note, like dark rye bread. It’s a wine of many layers, so closely serried that they are initially easy to miss. That compression, the complex weave of tannin, the vibrant drive of acid all mark this as a wine that will age spectacularly." 98Pts - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

2023 SC Pannell Sunrise 100 Grenache
$249
"Missing in '22, this is the debut pair to the Sunrise, with these centenarian vines catching the afternoon sun. Two blocks, same material, same age, quite different wines, though kindred. While the Sunrise is a little coiled, a little within itself, this is expressive and lifted, yet no less a wine of future promise. Steve Pannell likes a nebbiolo comparison for grenache, and while that often feels akin to Langhe Nebbiolo or Barbaresco in McLaren Vale, here Barolo is a more apt touchstone. Warm terracotta, papery faded flowers, pomegranate, blood orange, cherry, rosehip, star anise, dried orange peel, dried black cherry, sun-drenched wild fennel seeds. So much going on. A truly stellar wine, resting on a foundation of vigorous but cohesive acidity and a classically ensnaring web of complex natural tannins with resounding length of flavour. A wine of place, and one that I had open for four days without it tiring, rather further revealing itself. Such beauty, such intrigue. A wine to sit back and admire; great by any measure." 98Pts+ - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion