Grape Variety:100% Tempranillo
Origin Country:Australia
Region of Production:Barossa Valley (Single Vineyard, Estate Grown).
Picking Season: February 2022
Cellaring:Best enjoyed young, within 3-4 years of release
Alcohol:14%
Sugar Residual:0.3 g/L
T.A. (Acidity):6.25 g/L
Winemaking Notes:
The Tempranillo fruit is handled gently to ensure freshness, texture
and depth. We harvest in the cool of night, ferment in open vessels with
hand plunging or gentle pumping over to ensure even maceration,
press gently, and run to aged French oak barrels for natural malo-lactic
fermentation. Bottled in December 2022, we have retained the freshness and
aromatic intensity of the grape, while allowing some evolution of the
tannins for which it is famed.
Tasting Note:
The 2022 vintage was, in a word: terrific. Tempranillo is shy of serious
heat, so the relatively mild conditions of the 22 vintage suited it
perfectly, allowing greater fruit expression and perfume than if it’d
been a scorching South Aussie summer.
The resultant wine oozes the aromas of plums and ripe cherries that we
have come to know and love in ‘Temp’, with very faint (as they should
be…) hints of oak. Gentle spices flow from nose to palate, where they are
supported by pleasantly savoury, dry tannins, all of which we extracted
gently from the skins during fermentation.
The aim is to showcase the fruit, an outcome that we are delighted to
have achieved!
Food Pairing:
The Basques are famous for ‘pintxos’: small, delicious savoury bites. We
suggest tuna-stuffed piquillo peppers; the classic Spanish omelette
(tortilla de patatas); or even goat cheese and caramelized onions.
BCLD SPEC
SKU 302714