Aphelion Ardent McLaren Vale Sagrantino 2019

Enjoy a rare 93pt Single Vineyard Sangrentino from McLaren Vale's excellent, and (rapdidly) rising star Rob Mack. Rob was voted Young Gun of Wine in 2018 and his Aphelion, which won Best Small Producer at the McLaren Vale Wine Show in 2019, now proudly sports a Halliday estate rating of Five Red Stars. “A single vineyard in the White’s Valley subzone of the Vale. Young vines, but uber-low yielding. 3 months on skins with minimal agitation but for the frisk of CO2 as fermentation ensued. 18 months in older French oak. A delicious wine. So much promise embedded in the ferrous chalky tannins, acid crunch and panoply of blue and red fruits smattered with dried scrub, beef jerky, tamarind and olive. 93pts” (Ned Goodwin MW, The Halliday Wine Companion 2021).