Grenache Wines

Grenache is one of the wine world's most widely planted and versatile red grapes — the engine behind Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Côtes du Rhône and, as Garnacha in Spain, the great old-vine wines of Priorat and Campo de Borja. Wines Direct sources Grenache from independent producers who demonstrate what this variety achieves: warm, generous and spicy in youth, capable of real complexity and depth with age.

19 products

    • Sustainable
    Bottle of Père Pape Châteauneuf du Pape red wine from Rhône Valley, France

    Pere Pape Famille Roumieux - Chateauneuf du Pape AOP France

    Pere Pape Famille Roumieux - Chateauneuf du Pape AOP France

    €67.00
    €67.00
    • Organic
    Bottle of Les Trois Villages Blanc white wine from Ventoux, France

    Les Trois Villages Blanc Ventoux AOC France

    Les Trois Villages Blanc Ventoux AOC France

    €19.50
    €19.50
    • Organic
    • Biodynamic
    Bottle of Baronne Pièce de Roche red wine from Languedoc, France

    Baronne `Piece de Roche` IGP France

    Baronne `Piece de Roche` IGP France

    €46.50
    €46.50

More About Grenache Wines

How you pronounce this grape depends on whether you’re north or south of the Pyrenees. In France, Grenache thrives in the sunny south, particularly the Languedoc and Southern Rhône Valley.

It achieves ultra-ripeness in the sun and makes wines that are high in alcohol with sweet and peppery flavours. It also is one of the fundamental grapes that make up a Châteauneuf-du-Pape. But it is actually a Spanish grape and its original name is Garnacha. Unlike in France, where it is usually part of a blend, in Spain it can stand alone to make wonderfully fruity and spicy reds.

Grenache — known as Garnacha in Spain and Cannonau in Sardinia — is one of the world's most widely planted red grape varieties and the engine behind some of France's and Spain's greatest wines. In the southern Rhone Valley it is the dominant grape in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Vacqueyras. In Spain, old-vine Garnacha from Priorat, Aragon and Navarra produces wines of extraordinary concentration and mineral depth. Grenache is a late-ripening, heat-loving variety that produces wines naturally low in tannin, high in alcohol and rich in red fruit — strawberry, raspberry, cherry — with characteristic garrigue (wild herb) notes. Old-vine Grenache can produce wines of extraordinary complexity and depth. At Wines Direct we champion Grenache in all its expressions.