Ox Hardy Grenache 2022, McLaren Vale SA

Wine details

A highly playful and elegant Grenache packed with spice.

Grape Variety – Grenache;
Region – McLaren Vale South Australia;
Vintage – 2022;
Winery – Ox Hardy;
Profile – Blue berry, medium bodied, spiced, plush

Ox Hardy

Ox Hardy range of wines represent a rare and precious combination of people, vineyard, history and winemaking provenance.

Andrew ‘Ox’ Hardy is one of Australia’s most respected winemakers. His family’s Upper Tintara Vineyard from McLaren Vale is one of Australia’s most important viticultural assets. A fifth generation winemaker, Andrew is the great-great grandson of Thomas Hardy, the ‘Father of the South Australian Wine Industry’. The Vineyard’s last remaining 2.54ha block of 1891 Ancestor Vines, planted by Thomas Hardy himself, are some of Australia’s oldest and most valuable.

The combination of the two has now lead to the release of wines already steeped in history. It is Andrew’s library of wines made from the family’s vineyard over the past two decades, but cellared and hidden from the public until the first release in 2019, that now demonstrates the quality and age-worthiness of these special releases.

Each element of the Ox Hardy range of wines are precious in their own right. The circumstances that have finally brought them together makes them a treasure of the Australian wine industry. The Ox Hardy Grenache exemplifies the family heritage and the quality of the vineyards they have created. A truly exceptional McLaren Vale Grenache which typifies South Australia wine.