Thistledown Sands of Time Old Vine Single Vineyard Grenache
- Red
- Australia
- McLaren Vale
- Grenache
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 7
- Community notes
- 67
- Merchant offers
- 21
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002024 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 84/ 10067 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £31per 75 cl2024 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- Drinking window
- 2024–2034drinking2020 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 3 community ratings (a small sample), read 2026-08-12. Style: South Australia Grenache Red.
- Body4.1 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.2 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.1 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness2.0 / 5
- DrySweet
- Red fruit · red fruit, raspberry, cherry, dried strawberry, cranberry
- Spice · pepper, rosemary, cinnamon, dried herbs, dried rosemary
- Oak · oak, chocolate, sandalwood, clove
- Earth · leather, earthy, flint, graphite, oolong tea
- Black fruit · black cherry, black fruit, blackberry, blueberry
- Floral · rose petal, perfume
Grapes: Grenache. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2020One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2024
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 2025unit not stated
- 202496£31 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- 2023£39 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 202296unit not stated
- 2021unit not stated
- 202095£32 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2024
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2020
- drinking, window 2024–2034
- Lowest price
- 2024
- £31 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £31 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026 |
| 2023 | £39 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026 |
| 2020 | £32 | 94.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024 |
Where to go next
LWIN 1916887