The Penny’s Hill team is thrilled to release our second vintage from our highly acclaimed Single Vineyard and Icons Collections. We are honoured to have received a resounding amount of praise for these releases, and we can’t wait for you to try them!
2024 ‘Yeenunga’ Grenache
97 Points, Steve Leszczynski, QWine Reviews
“An absolute belter of a Grenache, this Penny’s Hill Yeenunga has the ability to knock you over with a feather. Elegant, refined and pure, it’s an exceptional expression of the variety.
This second release surpasses the incredible 2023 debut. Juicy raspberries and squishy blueberries make a seductive entrance. So aromatically attractive, red flowers and violets bring the prettiness. Svelte and dancy yet with measured density, cherry cola, cherry pips and orange peel add interest to a detailed palate. A faint minerally presence ticks along offering a nod to the siltstone and sandstone soils before super fine spices wrap themselves around and shine the torch, leading the way to a long and persistent finish.
A wine of prestige and effortless drinkability, I want it all. Just brilliant!”
95 Points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
“This smells the goods and then delivers on the promise on the palate. It’s a complex grenache built around a heart of red-berried deliciousness. Raspberry, lavender, anise and assorted roasted spice notes dive into boysenberry, violet, earth and twigs. There’s both velvet and finesse to the tannin, and a general impression of poise. This is a beauty.”
95 Points, Tom Kline, The Wine Pilot
85 Points/Bronze – International Wine & Spirits Competition 2025
2023 ‘Yeenunga’ Shiraz
96 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
“Very deep, bright, saturated purple colour. Intense and bold pepper/clove/spice and star anise aromas; the flavour bursts on the palate with intensity and verve, a fruit-sweet core and lashings of very supple, fine tannins that run the full length of the palate. Very young and bold and loaded with potential. All it needs is time.”
95 Points, Tom Kline, Winepilot
“I love Shiraz like this from McLaren Vale. It’s classy and complex with a rich velvety aesthetic that never descends into ponderousness. It has a deep and brooding sensibility to the aromas, with boysenberry and blackberry fruits intense from the get go while intermingling with earth and black pepper spice. A swirl of the glass reveals salt-cured meat, black olive, sweet pops of clove, dried oregano, liquorice root and cacao nib. There’s an iodine-like minerality, too, adding a sense of lift. The palate is deep and intense while elegant and restrained. Black cherry, cocoa, earth, black pepper, black olive, liquorice root. It’s all encased in fine, grainy tannins that melt into the wine seamlessly while still providing frame and carry. And just like with the Grenache from this vineyard, the acidity is brilliant. It cools the mouth and washes everything down while fanning the flavour out through the back palate to long length. An excellent debut for this wine.”
95 Points, Stuart Knox, The Real Review
94 Points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
93 Points, Steve Leszczynski, QWine Reviews
92 Points, Angus Hughson, Vinous
86 Points/Bronze, International Wine & Spirits Competition 2025
2024 ‘Single Vineyard’ Grenache
95 Points, Steve Leszczynski, QWine Reviews
“This is the second release of the Single Vineyard Grenache from Penny’s Hill and it is everything as brilliant as the 2023 debut.
Fabulously fragrant, an array of red cherries, squishy raspberries and strawberries is met by dried red rose petals and violets. Silky and svelte, red currants slide in with a cheeky Wagon Wheel presence – that chocolate and raspberry interplay is elite. Dangerously seductive fine spices wrap themselves around this neat parcel of delish with a moreish and elongated finish adding to its attractive persona. I absolutely love the cut of its jib – it’s hard not to. Superb stuff!”
94 Points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
“Penny’s Hill is on the up and up. Beautiful wine. Fragrant, delicate, powerful where it needs to be, delicious through the core of it. Raspberries, dried herbs, roasted spices, a whisper of anise, a sense in general that an open field of grenache has been invited to your table. This wine does not lack precision or tension, indeed it’s well versed on both counts, but it feels unleashed and free in the best of ways. Put Penny’s Hill and this wine on your radar. This is $50 very well spent.”
94 Points, Tom Kline, The Wine Pilot
93 Points, Angus Hughson, Vinous
87 Points/Bronze, International Wine & Spirits Competition 2025
2023 ‘Single Vineyard’ Cabernet Sauvignon
95 Points, Shanteh Wale, SA Wine Guide
“Matured for 16 months French barriques. Small compact cabernet berries can be detected here. There is a hint of lilac and underbrush, Christmas cherries and plum skin. Kampot peppers, shiso and sage leaf. A wealth of fresh redcurrant acidity and fine lace of tannins. It’s dialled up in its rigour with a spice trail of sumac, paprika and poppy seed. Here, we see the McLaren Vale ardour with the cellar potential of a decade or so. Impressive stuff.”
95 Points, Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
“Wonderfully fruited and enticing, the bouquet shows blackcurrant, clove, rich floral, tobacco, and cedar characters on the nose. The palate delivers excellent weight and depth, superbly framed by fleshy texture and layers of polished tannins, making it structured and refined with a sustained, robust finish.”
93 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
91 Points, Angus Hughson, Vinous
90 Points/Silver, International Wine & Spirits Competition 2025
2022 ‘Single Vineyard’ Shiraz
95 Points, Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
“Dark and inky in the glass. Heady aromas of mulberry, plum, dried herbs, bramble, nutty oak and spice. Rich, mouth-filling and plush in flavour. There’s lashings of dark fruits, spice and a creamy, nutty oak framework. The tannins are firm and structured and the acidity has real brightness. A wine that is made for the long haul.”
94+ Points, Tom Kline, The Wine Pilot
“Plum jam, cassis and blueberry aromas intermingle with dusty paperbark, game meat and baking spices in a poised, lifted and overall inviting opening. Some lovely savoury notes of black tea and earth to follow, filling things out and adding dimension and complexity. The palate is equally elevated and bright, with vibrant fruit notes akin to the nose along with a whisper of bacon fat sitting high in the mouth while underpinned by a brisk line of red fruited acidity and finely woven black tea infused tannins. Lovely poise through a long choc-mint laced finish. This is suitably ripe, but with an air of elegance and wonderful complexity. Bravo.”
94 Points, Steve Leszczynski, QWine Reviews
93 Points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
93 Points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
92 Points, James Suckling.com
92 Points, Angus Hughson, Vinous
91 Points/Silver, Decanter World Wine Awards 2024
91 Points, Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
87 Points/Bronze, International Wine & Spirits Competition 2025
