Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son) Brennecke Grenache
Barossa Valley
Price Range at Release: $200-$499
Vintage: 2021
Alc %: 15.0
$ Rel: 275
If Dave Powell has a signature for grenache, here it is. It's a wild, heady, pungent and emphatic wine that needs either cellaring or significant breathing to deliver its best. Laced with dark flowers and musky spices, it's steeped in dense aromas of dark plums, blueberries, licorice and bitumen, with star anise gradually appearing. Saturated with dense black, blue and red fruit that borders on bloodiness, it's tarry and meaty with a hint of currant, driving forever towards a lingering and savoury finish of red licorice and dark cherries.
Last Date Tasted: 23/05/2024
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2021
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96 | 19.1 | 2033-2041  | Buy it |
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2017
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95 | 18.8 | 2029-2037+ |
Winery
Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son)
Dave Powell, founder of Torbreck, has re-entered Australian wine, this time with his son, Callum at his side. Since 2014 the company has focused on high-quality sites across both the Eden Valley and Barossa Valley, retaining Dave Powell's dual focuses on Rhône Valley varieties as well as his well known intent to chase elegance, savoury finesse and structure. The new Powell & Son wines combine extraordinary depth of layered fruit, handsome oak and fine textures with the minerality and thoughtful composition associated with the finest wines of Dave Powell's previous existence. But Torbreck these wines are not – there's a distinctly different style here to what Torbreck became. I'm truly excited to get to know these compelling wines.
Chief Executive(s):
Michael Sawyer
Winemaker:
Dave Powell
Address:
Lyndoch , South Australia Australia
Principal Wine Region:
Barossa
Telephone:
(08) 8524 4465
Website:
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