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Grosset Gaia 2016 1.5L Magnum

  • James Halliday
    98 Points
  • Campbell Mattinson
    95 Points
Grosset Gaia 2016 1.5L Magnum
  • James Halliday
    98 Points
  • Campbell Mattinson
    95 Points
Grosset Gaia 2016 1.5L Magnum
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Grosset Gaia 2016 1.5L Magnum

SKU: GGCB201620 UCAU
15 Plus Years
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Founded in 1981, Grosset is a Clare Valley benchmark; Gaia is Jeffrey Grosset’s estate-grown Cabernet blend, renowned for purity and age-worthy structure

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Tasting Notes

Grosset Gaia is a benchmark Clare Valley blend named after the Gaia vineyard, which sits high in the hills at the edge of the region. The 2016 vintage is built around Cabernet Sauvignon with a significant portion of Cabernet Franc, all grown organically and picked for balance and clarity. After fermentation, the wine was aged for 18 months in French oak barriques (about 40% new), adding depth without masking the vineyard’s character.

In the glass, the 2016 Gaia is immediately expressive - cassis, blackcurrant, and dark cherry lead, supported by bay leaf, tobacco, graphite, and a hint of dried herb. The palate is medium-bodied and focused, with firm tannins and lively acidity providing length and structure. There’s impressive clarity and drive, with the wine’s dark fruit and savoury, mineral edge evolving as it opens. This is a Gaia built for the cellar, combining purity, elegance, and lasting power - a true expression of place and vintage.

Critic Scores

Estate-grown cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc, the certified organic vines 33yo. A breath of fresh air, pulling my lip up and out of the Dante's inferno of other wines in this particular tasting. Supple and immaculately balanced, every flavour, texture and beautifully nuanced fruits that are 100% within the varietal makeup, the tannins almost lustrous, so fine are they. Drink by 2046

7000 bottles made. Clare Valley blend of cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc. Prestige producer.
It’s a medium weight wine with class written all over it. The flavours run on strict, straight lines and as it turns out, that’s a very good thing. Boysenberry, leather, plum and fresh blackcurrant flavours are served with overtones of pencil/milk chocolate and bay leaves. Tannin is as fine-grained as can be. Tobacco-like, undergrowthy characters add yet more to the offering. It’s not a thumper; it’s just long, pure and complex. Drink 2022 - 2040.

Vinification & Cultivation

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Vineyard Cultivation

Gaia is Grosset's proprietary Cabernet-based blend from carefully selected Clare Valley vineyard parcels, planted on the region's slate, limestone, and clay soils that produce wines of classical structure and exceptional ageing potential. Jeffrey Grosset's block selection emphasises quality over volume, harvesting fruit at optimal phenolic ripeness. The 2016 vintage was a warm, dry year across South Australia, favouring full phenolic ripeness in Cabernet and its complementary blending varieties. The vineyards received good water availability through spring and moderate summer stress, concentrating flavours while maintaining natural acidity. These conditions allowed Grosset to craft a wine of ripe fruit and structured tannins.

Vinification

Hand-harvested Cabernet and complementary varieties were fermented separately in temperature-controlled vessels with structured extraction techniques designed to develop colour and tannin maturity progressively. Post-fermentation, each component underwent oak maturation for integration and development of secondary flavours and complexity over time. The 2016 vintage components were selected for balance and demonstrated ageing potential, with the final blend composed to show immediate appeal and decade-plus cellaring capacity. Oak selection was made to complement the blend's structure, building integrated tannins. Extended élevage developed complexity.

About this Wine

Grosset

Established in 1981, Grosset Wines is independently owned and dedicated to allowing purity of fruit and region to take centre stage. “We aim to produce the best examples of variety and place. This is self-explanatory really… Riesling from the Clare Valley, expressing the dramatic differences between soft rock and hard rock sites and then differences within those broad categories; uniquely sited Semillon and Fiano, Cabernet from the coolest site in the region and of course, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from an even cooler sub-region of the Adelaide Hills,” explains owner and founder, Jeffrey Grosset.

“Purity of fruit and optimum ripeness are crucial to us, and we are not afraid to use different wine making approaches to bring the best out of each vineyard. Each is a testament to this philosophy.”

Clare Valley

Situated in the Mid North of South Australia, approximately 120 km north of Adelaide is one of Australia's oldest wine regions the Clare Valley. The area is broken up into three sub-regions, the Polish Hill River region to the east, the Central Clare Valley, and the Skillogalee Valley to the west.

Often associated with some of Australia's finest Riesling the cool climate and differing terroirs have paved the way for exciting and diverse wines over a plethora of varietals resulting in wines of pure expression and great length. Home to some of Australia's most iconic wineries - cult producers like Wendouree, to Australian icons such as Kilikanoon and boutique producers like Atlas, the Clare Valley is definitely an area to keep an eye on for exciting and ever evolving wines

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