Description / Reviews
// 72% Grenache, 13% Mataro, 8% Shiraz, 7% Counoise
"Junto is medium bodied, fresh, unpretentious and delicious. It is Grenache-led, with blue and red fruits and fresh herbs a great template for this style of wine. We pick as early as we dare to catch freshness and use around 20% whole bunches to give the wine a tightness, and herbal nervy feel. The blended varieties help to ‘complete’ the wine, elevating it to a more complex and balanced place. The Mataro is always an outstanding parcel, with deep, spicy red fruit flavours and great structure. Shiraz adds deeper black fruits, but we take care not to use too much to lose the delicate freshness of the Grenache. In 2025 we have also included 7% Counoise from our own vineyard. This variety produces light, fresh, red-fruited wine at an elegant 12% alcohol, making it an ideal blending option here." - Bondar, Winemaker
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The Grenache is sourced from two sites. The majority comes from Bondar’s Rayner Vineyard, with supplementary fruit from a deep, sandy site in Blewitt Springs. The Shiraz is also home-grown Rayner fruit (70-year-old vines on sand), while the Mataro was sourced from the Lacey vineyard in the foothills of Willunga on the famed, rocky Kurrajong soils.
All the fruit fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in old oak. As always, the blend was composed with the idea that Grenache is the hero, with Shiraz supporting with roundness and depth and the Mataro lending spice, structure and tannin. The Counoise which has joined this years blend provides a fleshy undercurrent of deep red fruits." - Bibendum, Distributor
"72/13/8/7% grenache (Rayner site and the Trott Vineyard)/mataro (Willunga)/shiraz (Rayner)/counoise (Rayner). There’s some bunch in the grenache, and the wine was raised in 1700–2700L vats. The medium-weighted, accessible, everyday-drinking red from Bondar, a wine made to fit the climate and culture of the region. And this nails it, again. Red fruits, pomegranate, cranberry, tart raspberry, rose petals, a background of dried herbs and spice. But it’s no disposable vin de soif, so informed it is by fine tannic detail, crunchy acidity and lingering flavour resonance. Such a beautiful thing." - 95 Points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
"Raspberry, spice, some floral notes and dried herb. It’s medium-bodied, a fresh and juicy wine, red fruits with something of a nutty character, a light grip to tannin, a little smudgy on the finish (in a nice sort of way mind you), a subtle aniseed and herb flavour closes it out. Pretty good length too. A nice drink we have here. Easy to enjoy." - 92 Points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front