26/10/2026
🍷 Staff Must Try | Grace’s Pick of the Week
This week Grace has been reaching for the Thistledown Gorgeous Grenache 2024 — and with a name like that, it was always going to be hard to resist.
For Thistledown, Grenache is very much their favourite child, and this is a great example of how they draw out its elegant side while making something genuinely appealing. Aromatic and lifted on the nose, it leads with wild strawberries and red cherries, backed by gentle spice. Unfiltered, with only a small proportion seeing old oak, the fruit stays firmly front and centre — layered, textural and finishing with a ripe, compelling savouriness that keeps you coming back.
Behind it are Giles Cooke and Fergal Tynan, both Masters of W**e, who founded The Thistledown W**e Company in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills in 2010. Their philosophy is simple: lithe, energetic w**es that showcase the best of South Australia’s rich patchwork of old vine Grenache sites, made with intelligent, low-intervention w**emaking. Small batch, handmade and always full of character — this is exactly that.
Slightly chilled, it’s brilliant with pizza or tomato-based pasta, where the bright red fruit and gentle spice echo the sauce beautifully. At £17.50 a bottle (or £15.50 in a mixed six), it’s a gorgeous Grenache that more than lives up to its name.
In-store now, or order online via the link - https://noblegreenw**es.co.uk/products/thistledown-gorgeous-grenache-2024
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