Two Hands Yesterday’s Hero Grenache 2022

Two Hands winery was formed by founders Michael Twelftree and Richard Mintz in September 1999.  The goal had always been making best Shiraz and other wines from South Australian soils. It had a very humble start.

‘Yesterday’s Hero’ is a reference to John Paul Young song. The reference here is to Grenache being used as the back bone to so many great bottlings in the 1960s and 1970s. However rarely receiving any credit.

The boxing gloves are to show a boxer after a fight, who has had enough and maybe can’t find the energy to go on. He was once a gloried boxer but today, he is just Yesterday’s Hero.

The fruits are harvested in McLaren vale’s vineyards. They are transported to Marananga winery, there the fruit was left a few days to cold soak in 4-tonne round small batch fermenters, and was lightly plunged. Average time ‘on-skins’ was 12 days. All pressings were added back to the free run. Aged for 6 months in a combination older French Oak puncheon and hogsheads.

The wine is still quite young, the palate is now soft on the entry, but the red fruits juiciness builds through your palate, supported by spice and clove notes. Medium bodied, overall very vibrant with great juicy length underpinned by fine savoury talcy tannins.