On Saturday 23rd January from 9am to 4pm, Haselgrove Wines will be in Willunga at the ONKA Village as part of the 2010 Tour Down Under ProTour Cycling Event.

Haselgrove will showcase the whole range of wines, giving local punters the first chance to taste and buy the new ranges in a ‘cellar door-like’ atmosphere since their release.

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Rusty-coloured leaves have mostly fallen from the vines in the Barossa Valley but, at many vineyards, great dark masses of shrivelled fruit remain. Most grapes are probably Grenache because it was a shocker year for this variety in the Barossa. Even those vignerons able to harvest clean, rot-free grapes found the flavour so dilute it was doubtful even for making rose´. That’s the bad news. Not much Grenache dry red from the Barossa in 2011. The good news is there are more great Grenache dry reds being produced in South Australia than ever, writes Huon Hooke in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Go to http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/top-drop/growing-appeal-of-grenache-20110625-1gk88.html to read more about the Grenache styles of South Australia and click http://www.haselgrove.com.au/2010/10/bella-vigna-grenache/ to read about our Single Vineyard McLaren Vale Grenache