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    Taylors Estate

    Tempranillo 2017

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    A variety made famous in Rioja, this is a medium-bodied with seductive flavours of blueberries, cherries and dark plums. French oak maturation provides subtle savoury, spice characters.
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    Accolades

    Honours and awards

    • Wine Show
    • Award
    • Hot 100 South Australian Wines 2017
    • Top 100
    • Asia Wine Trophy 2018
    • Gold
    • Berliner Wine Trophy 2018
    • Gold
    • Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show 2017
    • Silver
    • Wine Showcase Magazine New Release Tasting 2017
    • Silver
    • Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show 2018
    • Silver
    • China Wine & Spirits Awards Best Value 2018
    • Silver
    • Monterey International Wine Competition 2018
    • Silver
    • Mundus Vini International Wine Awards 2018
    • Silver
    • Pacific Rim International Wine Competition 2018
    • Silver
    • World Wine Championships Awards BTI 2018
    • Silver
    • International Wine Challenge Tranche 1 2017
    • Commended
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    Wine details
    VITAL STATISTICS

    Wine details

    • At release the wine is a ruby red with a vibrant purple hue.

      The wine displays blueberry fruit character with hints of vanilla bean and underlying subtle cigar box and spicy oak aromas.

      This is a medium-bodied wine with flavours of ripe black fruit, blueberry, plums and subtle black cherry along with subtle spice and well integrated savoury French oak. There is a pleasing soft and silky texture to the mid palate and the wine has a long, persistent finish.

    • Once again the fruit for this wine was sourced from both the taylor family estate in the Clare Valley and a grower partner in McLaren Vale. Once received into the winery, the fruit was destemmed and then was cold soaked for a period of 5 days at 5 degrees Celsius prior to being inoculated for fermentation. Once fermentation was completed, the must was pressed to 2 year old French hogsheads for secondary malolactic fermentation. Post MLF the wine was matured for a brief period in a selection of old French oak hogsheads prior to final blending and then after minimal fining and filtration, bottled in July 2016.

    • Clare Valley & McLaren Vale

      • Acid: 6.17
      • Alc %: 13.5
      • PH: 3.70
      • Residual Sugar: 0.67

    • This wine can be enjoyed upon release but will reward careful cellaring up to and possibly beyond 2022.

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    Reviews

    • Tony Love, Wine with Tony Love

      18 Mar 2019
      4.5 Stars
      Recently judged highly in a major independent comp, this youthful, medium-bodied wine gives nothing away in its heady swirl of vibrant aromatics and flavours, the fruit in perfectly sweet plum and cherry pitch, juicy and lively with bright acidity echoing those initial nasal impressions. Delicate woodiness and spice adds a depth to softer tannins in the finish. One of the best $20 wines
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    • Tony Love, Tempranillo

      18 Mar 2019
      4.5 Stars
      Recently judged highly in a major independent comp, this youthful, medium-bodied wine gives nothing away in its heady swirl of vibrant aromatics and flavours, the fruit in perfectly sweet plum and cherry pitch, juicy and lively with bright acidity echoing those initial nasal impressions. Delicate woodiness and spice adds a depth to softer, touchy-feely tannins in the finish. What can you say
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    • Campbell Mattinson,

      18 Apr 2019
      86 Points
      Tempranillo from the Clare Valley and McLaren Vale regions. Soft, ripe and juicy with fruit. Not a rough edge in sight. Berries aplenty, sweet-edged but with dry spice and musky choc-vanilla notes hovering. Light-ish but there
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