Grenache Wines

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.