Thistledown Charming Man 2021

96+ points – Wine Advocate July 2022

This wine is named after Bernard Smart, who owns the Smart vineyard in Clarendon. This 2021 The Charming Man Single Vineyard Grenache is more savory and fine-boned than the Sands of Time; there’s rose petal fruit and raspberry pip and iodine, kelp and graphite. There’s a bloody character here. I love it. It’s savory, supple, whippy, pliable, mouth perfume.

96 points – The Wine Front
95 points – Wine Companion
95 points – The Vintage Journal (Andrew Caillard MW)
95 points – Ned Goodwin MW