Amazing Tempranillo!
You’re getting into red wine. You’re craving something different. Something savoury. Enter Tempranillo, Spain’s #1 wine grape. With the structure of Cabernet Sauvignon and meaty nature of Carignan, Tempranillo is an experience to behold. When young, it can be surprisingly fresh and fruity. However, with oak and age, you’ll find more of the dust, tobacco, and leather flavours serious wine fans crave.
Tempranillo is a very old variety. While the earliest official mention of the variety is from 1807, the general theory is that Tempranillo was introduced to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) by the Phoenicians over 3,000 years ago. A bizarre clue that questions Tempranillo’s Iberian origin is the scattered plantings found in Tuscany and Basilicata, Italy.
Dominant flavours include cherry, dried fig, cedar, tobacco, and dill. Age impacts the flavours of Tempranillo significantly, with Roble and Crianza examples imparting juicy fruit flavours and heat. Reserva and Gran Reserva examples feature deeper, darker fruit notes, dry leaves, and Tempranillo’s signature leather flavours.
While famed for pairing with red meat and ham, Tempranillo is a surprisingly versatile food wine that can match well with roasted vegetables, smoke, starch, hearty pastas, and even Mexican food.
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American oak barrels are used for the fermentation and maceration of the wine for 10 days. The wine is then aged for 18 months inside the same barrels and then aged in the bottle for a minimum of 24 months. Intense cherry red with floral and fruity with toasted notes. Ripe fruits with a touch of oak on the palate. Eucalyptus notes, warm and expressive for a wine nearly a decade old!
This Tempranillo has a silky texture with black cherry aromas and flavours of tart cherries, plums and ripe berries layered with hints of cocoa, mint and licorice. The wine finishes with delicious spicy, toasty oak. V 94
Vibrant and youthful in appearance. Sweet aromas of boysenberry and red liquorice leap from the glass before a sweetly fruited palate. Blood orange and cherries spiced with caraway seed. Soft and round but structured with tangy acidity and a gentle grip. Delicious drinking now.
Fruit forward, intense with abundant notes of red and wild black berry fruits. Delicate hints of oak, lead to an elegant, juicy, and long silky finish. This is a wine of substance, with the ability to age for years ahead. Perfect accompaniment to steak, pork chops and meats with a hearty gravy or sauce.
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100+ year old vines. Aged 18 months in oak and an additional 12 months minimum in bottle before release. Intense and bright cherry red. Jam mixed with roasted coffee and very ripe cherries. Very different. Meaty with a long lasting expression of fruit which is well integrated with the oak. Elegant, velvety, round and full bodied with a long persistent finish. Original and different. 100% Tempranillo
High chromatic intensity, with purple and cherry hues that accompany these 100 year old vines. Primary tones of blackberry, licorice and violet. Hints of sweet spices, pepper and toffee. Gentle tannins, long aftertaste, volume and great medium mouth. 15 months in French Oak.
Dark fruit-scented style with some serious layers of baking spices and black and blue fruits. Shows a remarkable strength, some serious depth and well-integrated alcohol and oak. D 95
A blend of Aragonez, Touriga Nacional and Trincadeira. A beautiful expression of Bojador. Concentrated, with a savoury, spicy, slightly cedar edge to the dense black cherry and blackberry fruit. There's a gravelly character too. Has bright fruit with firm tannins.
This single-vineyard Tempranillo from the oldest vines on the estate is a rockstar. Red fruit stands out, with currants, strawberries and licorice. The wood is almost a companion that leaves a finish of cinnamon, and hints of white pepper. Fresh, with the identity of the terroir, and the altitude of the vineyard that it comes from, agile, with fine touches of spices, elegant, deep. Drink now or hold for 10-15 years with ease. 12 months French Oak.
This is a bright and energetic Tempranillo, made using a method called 'Carbonic Maceration', which tends to produce super-fruit-forward wines. The nose is bursting with fresh blue fruit, notes of dark cherry also leap form the glass, with flavours of black jelly babies from top to bottom. Soft, plump and delicious!
Very marked with aromas and a good balance of fruit and wood, where the vanilla tones are mixed with well-ripened fruit, blackberries and wild fruits. Very slight hints of leather and liquorice that result from the mixture of French oak wood and the aromas inherent in this variety of grape. 12 months French oak. Soft texture, but fills the palate with balanced flavours, including fine tannins, which help prolong the life of the wine. Elegant long finish
Hints of vanilla, coffee and chocolate on the nose, likely from the 10 months in French oak barrels that are well integrated with aromas of red fruit. A powerful, round and well structured wine. Complex and balanced with touches of wood and bright fruit. Tempranillo, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon.