Thistledown - Fool on the Hill Grenache 2022 (750ml) Richebourg Grand Cru bark and smoke aromas that

bark and smoke aromas that pour out of this

complex and intriguing

Vintage Ports such as the remarkable Dow 1896

lending to a bouquet of lush

and a kind of at once leafy and riverstony core though the story here is more about its freshness

Thistledown - Fool on the Hill Grenache 2022 (750ml) Richebourg Grand Cru bark and smoke aromas thatThe Fool on the Hill is brand new. Sourced from two tiny plots of essentially dry grown bush vine Grenache, planted by Joel Mattschoss, high in the Eden Valley on soils that require a vine to struggle. Its a spectacular plot with an unusually bright future, though the impenetrable soils, lack of adequate water and exposure would have led all but the bravest to question the sense of the project. The signature Thistledown lifted aromatics are present