Collection: Grenache & Friends

Like Cabernet Franc, Grenache is widely known as a grape varietal blended with other wines in order to achieve a superior overall product. At one time the second most planted grape in the world, it remains one of the most prolific – in Spain, where it is known as Garnacha, it was for a long time the country’s most common red wine grape. However, when you buy Grenache wine online today, it may be as a fine single varietal wine, or perhaps as the base for another fine blend.

Grenache requires a hot, dry climate – explaining its overwhelming presence in Spain as well as southern France, here in Australia and in inland California’s San Joaquin Valley. It was, in fact, Australia’s most planted red wine grape variety until the Shiraz usurped it. A lighter, translucent colour belies its higher alcohol content, which gives a medium body to its distinctive fruit candy and cinnamon taste.