Deep garnet colored, the 2009 The Beautiful View Grenache offers fragrant warm blueberry and cherry aromas over subtle notes of sultanas, chocolate, spice cake and potpourri. Full bodied and generous on the palate, it has a good backbone of firm chewy tannins and lively acid giving sustained freshness long into the finish. Drink it now to 2021+. The d’Arenberg winery is 100 years old with a fourth generation Osbourne in charge today of this now considerable operation. Graduated from Roseworthy College in 1983, Chester was expected by his father to change things when he took over the family business. Instead he went back to tradition rather than modernizing. In the d’Arenberg vineyards there is no cultivating, fertilizing or herbicides used – Chester compares these artificial means to growing plants hydroponically. Looking to continually improve the root systems of his vines, he rarely irrigates. Average yields are 1.7 tons per acre. “2011 was actually a great year for us,” Chester informed me. “We didn’t have any problems with rot.”Importer: Old Bridge Cellars, Napa, CA, www.oldbridgecellars.com

Drying, grippy tannins surround a sweet core of cinnamon-accented raspberry flavors, lingering on the focused finish. This needs time to show what it has. Drink now through 2018. 200 cases imported.??–HS??Region: Australia / McLaren Vale Select to Add