2024 McLaren Vale Tempranillo

Aromas of dark cherry, mulberry and fresh plum fruit, red liquorice, pepper notes and hints of bay and flowering thyme. Full flavoured wine showing characters of mixed berries, warm spices - cloves and anise. Soft and silky tannins with lingering flavours.

VINTAGE SUMMARY

The season started with a dry winter and start to spring. Warm days and quite cool nights
meant a slow start to shoot growth, and smaller crops in some early flowering varieties, but in mid-November the weather pattern changed to give us a lot of rain and some humidity, which helped with shoot growth and to improve crop levels, but was challenging in the vineyards to keep disease under control. In early January the rain stopped thankfully, and we had dry conditions right the way through harvest, so disease was much less of an issue than it could have been. A few short heat waves provided some challenges, but generally the wine quality is very good.

Our Tempranillo comes from a vineyard in the Tatachilla sub-region of McLaren Vale grown on loamy sand over light clay. The vineyard sits at approximately 70m above sea level and benefits from the cooling sea breezes coming from the Gulf St Vincent

The fruit was harvested cool and allowed to naturally warm, then was fermented in open
fermenter for 7 days, then basket pressed. Once pressed the wine was racked off gross
lees to old French oak puncheons for malolactic fermentation and maturation. Wine
remained in barrel for 9 months. No fining, vegan friendly.