2024 Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache Dry Red Wine

"Buy this. You’ll never regret it."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

Mark Bulman, one of Australia’s finest Grenache minds, continues to shape a distinctive new chapter for the variety with Bulman Wines - and the 2024 Glen’s Vineyard Grenache is another standout.

Sourced from the ancient Stonegarden Vineyard (est. 1857) in Eden Valley, this wine speaks of place like few others. The 2024 season was warmer and drier than the previous year, and this shows in a wine with less overt spice but more inherent power. Picked on April 8th with 9% whole bunch, the fruit saw 14 days pre-ferment on skins, an 8-day ferment, and 55 days post-ferment skin contact before 182 days in sandstone amphora. The result is a wine of depth and tension.

Expect layers of blood orange, rhubarb, green cardamom, there’s a ferrous, amaro-like edge and ultra-fine tannins that unfurl with air, building persistence and nodding at excellent ageing potential. Glen Monaghan’s vineyard work and Mark’s thoughtful winemaking once again combine to deliver a modern Grenache with both heritage and energy.

A remarkable wine from a remarkable site - powerful yet fine-boned, and destined for greatness in the cellar. This is an incredible follow up to his debut release. We're onto a good thing here. Extremely limited.

97 points
"A gust of red florals, red and sour black cherry, bitter red aperitivo, ground warm spices, a rusty note, alpine-like herbal scents, ground fennel, and all so poised. There’s space to see the detail, underwritten by a quiet yet insistent current of old vine gravitas and soulful, site-specific resonance carried by intricately etched tannins. Stunning."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points
"I’ve gone through two bottles of this and half-way through the first, I started texting people. It’s one of those wines; it gets you excited; a few glasses in and you want to start shouting about it... We live in exquisite wine times, we must, because here it is... I really think that this wine is pretty sensational... On the first bottle I nearly got RSI from tipping the bottle up, begging for one drop more."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)