NEW RELEASE

2024 Brioni’s Blend

$35.00 / bottle

Our Brioni’s Blend is dedicated to 6th generation Brioni Oliver, one of the cousins keeping this McLaren Vale family winery still going after 185 years. A wine that is all fruit and all good!

Specifications Reviews Video

Specifications

Region

100% McLaren Vale

Winemaker

Corrina Wright, 6th Generation

Winemaking

Vegan friendly. Sustainable Winegrowing Australia certified.

Grape Variety

71% Touriga, 19% Grenache, 10% Mencia

History

With 300 acres of premium grapevines on the Taranga property in McLaren Vale, the Oliver family has over 50 blocks representing different grape varieties, clones, soil types & vine ages. Each vintage, different varieties & blocks will show their strength and from this has been born the ‘SMALL BATCH’ range. These wines have been handcrafted to speak of both the variety and the vintage in which they have been produced.

Aroma

Violets, forest berries, wet stone, red licorice, nanna’s boiled sweets.

Wine & Vintage

This is the sixth release of our Brioni’s Blend. As you know, we like to name our wines after family members, and Brioni had got away without one for too long. The 2024 blend includes the famous Portuguese variety Touriga, delicious Grenache and some Mencia to round out the blend. It also means all the varieties original homes are in the Iberian Peninsula. This is the perfect special sauce to celebrate our Brioni.

Palate

Jumps out of the glass, soft and juicy, fresh and vibrant. The forest fruits sing through the palate. Channel sitting in a plaza in Spain with a plate of tapas - delicioso!

The Year That Continued

In 2024 we were thrilled to be the home base for the inaugural RADL GRVL cycling event. The GRVL events have been operating for many years in Steamboat Springs in Colorado, and Lahti in Finland. Partners in the GRVL events, our friends Valtteri Bottas and Tiffany Cromwell, wanted to bring an event to South Australia during Tour Down Under, and McLaren Vale amongst the vines seemed like the best fit. In 2024, 300+ riders braved a 110km gravel ride through the hills and vineyards of our region.

Small Batch Production

9009

Colour

Bright purple red

Alcohol

14%

Reviews

What a juicy and gorgeously perfumed little blend this Brioni's Blend is. Perhaps in a world first (there is nothing like building the drama), the unity of Touriga, Grenache and Mencia (71/19/10) from Oliver's Taranga is a knockout.

The previous two releases were a blend of Mataro, Touriga and Shiraz with that combination being tipped on its head with more silky and glossy splendour bursting from your glass this time.

The lift Touriga brings is so pretty as it shines in all its glory here. Dried purple flowers and violets spill from the glass along with cherries and berry compote. Berry basket fruits are svelte and laced with delicious appeal. Fine spices wrap themselves around the palate doing concentric circles reaching out to a long and sustained finish. It's a wine that glides about with supreme ease and draining a few glasses is a ridiculously easy assignment. Give me it all.

Drink to five years. 95pts

- QWine

A black-fruited concoction with bilberry, juniper and black pepper spice. Bing cherries, plum and olive skin. Grenache gives the wine a highlight of red fruit and the boost of acidity, it’s quite soft and supple on the plate with a chew to the fine dusty tannins. Moreish and a hell of a good time. Drink now. 93pts

- Shanteh Wale, Winepilot