How unusual you say. Grenache in France, Garnarcha in Spain. But this is Margaret River? Is it not forbidden? The incredulity is obvious..... Well, I answer...somewhat tentatively... it's because one of my very favourite wines, a wooing wine, is a Chateunef du Pape called 'View Telegraph'. It's mostly Grenache but you will never see that on the label. It's the sort of wine that you want to drink on a picnic out in the fields, a simple meal of bread, salad, cheese and olives and to lie about and watch the clouds at the end of it all. It's the sort of wine to stop the world with. It's too expensive now so I have to make my own. At its best the French version would not be called fruity. It's about dried fruits and nuts, the intoxicating lift of alcohol, a certain lightness of constitution that never leans on you, a length of flavour and a raspberry ness that you don't see anywhere else. I don't promise you any of these things unless you try in the outdoors, middle of the day, conditions right for wooing etc.

Seriously, this is exemplary stuff, utterly sensuous, warm, cuddly, delicate, complex wine that merits your full attention.

Current Vintage 2002