“Put simply, Grosset is better than ever.”
- The Wine Companion
Riesling of the Year & White Wine of the Year - Polish Hill 2024…
alongside another seven Grosset wines included in Tyson Stelzer’s top 250 wines of 2024
"Time will most certainly reveal this to be one of the greatest in Grosset’s 44 vintage history."
- Tyson Stelzer (on the 2024 vintage)
Best Three Australian Red Wines of the Year - 2022 Grosset Gaia
- Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Jeffrey Grosset’s Clare Valley Rieslings are a must-buy every year, but in a year like 2024 they become a “sell a kidney to buy more” proposition.
- Nick Ryan’s Top 100 Wines of 2024, Weekend Australian Magazine
Jeff Grosset is one of Australia’s most influential winemakers.
A rare opportunity to join Jeff Grosset as he hosts an in depth masterclass & dinner of their incredible new releases.
Monday April 28th
Masterclass: 5.30-7pm, 10 Wines with nibbles $85
Dinner: 7:30pm, 10 Wines with 4 Courses $175
Grosset G110 Riesling 2024
(only 150 cases made…)
I have adored all six releases of G110 and this is hands-down the finest yet. It bursts a mesmerising kaleidoscope of exoticism extracted from the depths of 800 million year old red rock, contained immaculately in a riveting, brittle shell of cool season precision. It exemplifies all the lime juice and granny smith apple purity that we adore of the Clare with more flamboyance and personality and yet somehow also more precision and powder-fine mineral structure than ever. In line, length, presence and sheer confidence, this G110 sits confidently alongside Polish Hill 2024 as an exemplar of Grosset's five-decade career.
98 points, Tyson Stelzer
‘There’s a swagger of concentration and chalky texture. Apple, lime and lemongrass are accompanied by a huge swish of river pebble and saline-brine freshness … This is a very, very impressive Riesling.‘
97 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
The Wine List
On arrival
Grosset Alea Riesling 2024
Grosset’s Alea Riesling is a super wine nowadays. It’s touched by sweetness and it has an associated grapey aspect, but there are dramatic mineral and tonic characters in the mix now too, and more kick to the finish than ever. Alea Riesling now keeps some of its affability up its sleeve, and it does because it’s busy kicking rocks of quartz down the palate road. Just-sweet apple and citrus flavours pop throughout but it’s the extras that really excite. I don’t roll out the “best ever” slogan very often but I think that this is the best Grosset Alea of the 12 or so vintages that I’ve tasted.
95 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
First bracket
Grosset Springvale Riesling 2024
Nick Ryan’s Top 100 Wines of 2024
Jeffrey Grosset’s Clare Valley rieslings are a must-buy every year, but in a year like 2024 they become a “sell a kidney to buy more” proposition. His magisterial ‘Polish Hill’ wine will be a long-lived classic, but right now this utterly beguiling offering from his Watervale vineyard, strewn with citrus blossom, lifted by lemongrass and electrified with thrilling acidity, is undeniable.
96 points Nick Ryan’s Top 100 Wines of 2024, Weekend Australian Magazine
Grosset Polish Hill Riesling 2024
Riesling of the Year and my White Wine of the Year
By jove! Polish Hill 2024 is as desperately gorgeous as any of the highlights of his lauded career. Dainty white lily, granny smith apple and lemon blossom of pinpoint perfection rise in a dramatic crescendo over a powerful core of talcum powder structure, crystalline acidity and ancient slate texture, tracing a finish unrelenting for a full sixty seconds. It is at once lighter than air and yet possessing a resolute determination that sets a future in the cellar as enduring as the career of its maker. The essence of the Clare, time will most certainly reveal this to be one of the greatest in Grosset’s 44 vintage history, and one of the finest Australian rieslings conjured yet. It is a worthy winner of my Riesling of the Year and my White Wine of the Year.
98 points, Tyson Stelzer
”Grosset is always excellent but the 2024 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling is as good as any new-release Grosset riesling I have yet tasted (and I’ve tasted them on release every year for 20+ years).”
Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
Grosset G110 Riesling 2024
I have adored all six releases of G110 and this is hands-down the finest yet. It bursts a mesmerising kaleidoscope of exoticism extracted from the depths of 800 million year old red rock, contained immaculately in a riveting, brittle shell of cool season precision. It exemplifies all the lime juice and granny smith apple purity that we adore of the Clare with more flamboyance and personality and yet somehow also more precision and powder-fine mineral structure than ever. In line, length, presence and sheer confidence, this G110 sits confidently alongside Polish Hill 2024 as an exemplar of Grosset's five-decade career.
98 points, Tyson Stelzer
‘There’s a swagger of concentration and chalky texture. Apple, lime and lemongrass are accompanied by a huge swish of river pebble and saline-brine freshness … This is a very, very impressive Riesling.‘
97 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
Octopus, fennel, sourdough
Second bracket
Grosset Apiana Fiano 2024
Tyson Stelzer's Top 250 Australian Wines of 2024
I love the energising touch of the cool 2024 season on the presence and texture of fiano, creating a wonderful contrast between citrus zest and energy and the food-matching dexterity of supple texture and understated exoticism. Lemon and pear meet the slightest nuances of almost ripe passionfruit. The result is one of the most compelling fianos I’ve tasted.
94 points, Tyson Stelzer
Grosset Piccadilly Chardonnay 2024
A silky textured, inwardly concentrated release with fresh nashi pear, red apple, light gingery spice elements, halva and brine as the mainstays of descriptors. The potency gives a sense of power but there's control and elegance here, too. A graceful, salivating white of medium to fuller weight with impeccable balance and length. It's a star.
96 points, Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion
Chevre gnocchi, saffron tomatoes, basil
Third bracket
Grosset Pinot Noir 2024
Quintessential Adelaide Hills pinot from the mild 2024 vintage. With the majority whole bunch fermented with stalks one might expect a firmer, more savoury palate. Instead, it has a lightness of touch yet with depth and length of flavour. Tight and fine, intense in the mid-palate (think boysenberry, blackberry, raspberry) it has a freshness and elegance to satisfy with subtle tannins to finish. Fresh, vibrant, persistent.
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Grosset Nereus 2023
His small harvest has yielded a wonderfully drinkable blend of shiraz and nero d'avola that sets a beautiful contrast between the juicy black fruit depth of the Clare and the bright acidity, restrained alcohol, spicy, peppery complexity and mineral tannins of the cool 2023 harvest. The result is admirable and delicious!
94 points, Tyson Stelzer
Duck rillette croquettes, salsa verde
Fourth bracket
Grosset Gaia Cabernet Blend 2023
The cool, low-yielding 2023 harvest has presented Grosset's lofty, exposed Gaia vineyard in particularly captivating and dramatic detail! A compact and dense core of blackcurrant and cassis is lifted with bright redcurrant fruit, violet fragrance and accented with classic varietal markers of tobacco leaf and cigar box that linger very long and confident. Unashamedly medium-bodied, it presents unrelenting confidence and determination. What really sets this apart among the greatest Gaias in four decades is its powder-fine, mineral tannin structure, woven intricately with cool acidity to create a structural framework that achieves the ultimate contrast of graceful finesse and monumental longevity. 98 points, Tyson Stelzer
Grosset Gaia Cabernet Blend 2022 (Magnum)
This exposed and extreme site in the upper reaches of Clare is characterised by Cabernet of concentration, varietal precision, structural confidence and grand longevity, and the cool 2022 season has only served to amplify all four dimensions. The depth and definition of crunchy blackcurrant and cassis fruit is monumental, and it is blessed with all the mineral-fine tannin, vibrant acidity and profound persistence to endure exceedingly long indeed. the essence of Cabernet, and of Gaia!
97 points, Tyson Stelzer
It’s one of Australia’s best red wines, and yet few people talk of it. You can actually buy it; it’s not a ‘waiting list’ job. Gary Walsh described last year’s release as “superb”, and Campbell Mattinson had it in his best three Australian red wines of the year. On Winefront the past four vintages have rated 95, 94, 96 and 96, which is some feat for a single vineyard offering. These are Winefront scores too, remember; we (very) rarely go much higher. Gary Walsh has just described the new 2022 release as “a wine of wonderful shape and control.
Best Three Australian Red Wines of the Year
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front