Hither & Yon Tempranillo 2018

COLOUR: Bright purple with purple hue. A R O M A : Breakfast tea, black cherry, star anise, cola. P A L A T E : Forest berries, like Mulberry, cooling and inviting. Super juicy and delicious! Dash of clove/ cinnamon spice, nice glide and choc-berry fruitiness carries the wine forward. There is some good depth of brown earth and tannin on the finish, showing a more dark side to the wine. Drink up to 2022.

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Old Jarvie Vineyard, Rifle Range Road, McLaren Vale. The Tempranillo (3.2 hectares) was established in 2010, and clones are D5V12/13. It is hand spur pruned, two-wire vertical, single cordon. Geology sub region is Kurrajong landslide, Talus Slope, Kurrajong Formation. The soil here is reddish brown clay with breccia containing quartzite and siltstone from the nearby westerly sloping foothills. This site is 170m above sea level, higher rainfall than average for the region, and has mid to late season ripening characteristics.

Fruit was handpicked and delivered to the winery on March 2 and March 13, batches kept separate, gently de-stemmed and crushed, a cold soak taking place for 5 days on the second picking. Open fermentation in concrete round tanks followed for 12 days, gentle pressing, dug out the skins and combined parcels in tank, then transferred to 3-4 year old French hogsheads for 5 months. Screen filltration was used and no fining, a vegan friendly wine. Bottling completing the process on September 14 and sealed under Stelvin screw cap.