2020 Watervale Gardeners '1954 Plantings' Grenache

Ruby red crimson in the glass, with tumbling up layers of cherry & red berry aromatics and velvety florals, over a herbal thyme like undertone. On the palate, raspberry and strawberry flavours bounce around nicely together, to a light…. crisp over very tidy and unashamedly middleweight tannin finish. You could also put this Grenache into the fridge for half an hour in the height of summer.

GARDENER: Thomas Charles Hockridge

Thomas Charles Hockridge was originally a stonemason, emigrating to South Australia in 1875. In 1885, Thomas built the trigonometric survey station on Mt Lofty - later named Flinders Column - before moving to the Watervale region and turning his hand to farming, taking up this very garden in 1898.