57% Tempranillo, 29% Touriga Nacional, 14% Tinta Cão. Hand-harvested, crushed, and traditionally vinified in small open-top fermenters. 7 months in 500-litre mature French oak puncheons with 20% in new oak.
Tempranillo and Touriga Nacional are indigenous to the Iberian Peninsula and are the most famous red grape varieties of Spain and Portugal respectively. Tempranillo is also grown in Portugal where it is known as Tinta Roriz, and traditionally blended with Touriga Nacional and other indigenous varieties to make both dry red table wines and port. Their climatic suitability to our South Australian wine growing region is unquestionable, resulting in increased sustainability and wines with great natural balance, complexity and flavour. Touriga Nacional is new to many Australian wine drinkers and produces lusty, powerful, medium-bodied red wines with pungent fruit characteristics of fruit mince or plum pudding, nutmeg spice and floral notes. It blends well with the luscious juicy blackberry, plum, earth and cocoa that is Tempranillo. The Portuguese variety, Tinta Cão has also been added to the 2016 blend, lending backbone and edgy tannin.
Abundant Tempranillo black fruits, cherry, fruit bread & red liquorice, overlaid with Touriga Nacional’s pungent fruit, jasmine-scented floral and nutmeg/cinnamon spices. The intense and tightly intertwined flavours of this rich and flavoursome wine are primarily of fresh blackberries and panforte, with a complex spice profile including clove, nutmeg and cinnamon.