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New South Wales, Australia
Grandis Tempranillo
Grandis Wines
Minimal-intervention Tempranillo from a small Hunter Valley label.
$40.00
750mlVintage may change. If it does, we’ll notify you of any price adjustment before dispatch.
About
Grandis is Shannon Burgess-Moore's lo-fi label in Pokolbin, Hunter Valley, and this is the first Tempranillo he has made. It was fermented in open fermenters and matured entirely in large-format oak, in a run of 133 cases. Wine-show judges found plum and purple fruit, raspberry and blackberry, a savoury dried-bay-leaf edge, crunchy acidity and firm tannins.
Tempranillo was a new grape for Grandis, and the label exists for exactly that experiment. Shannon Burgess-Moore launched it in 2010 to work with alternative varieties and minimal intervention. He is credited with pioneering lo-fi winemaking in the Hunter, and this wine is part of that record.
Open fermenters and large-format oak are a light-touch way to handle Tempranillo. Big barrels give the wine air without much oak flavour, so the fruit stays in front. The retailer who first listed it called it bright and fleshy, and that matches what the show judges found in the glass. It is also vegan-friendly.
It drinks well now and will develop for a few years yet. Serve it with a light chill on a warm night, beside chorizo, grilled lamb or a tray of roast vegetables.
Producer note
Shannon Burgess-Moore runs Grandis as an experimental side project alongside his day job making wine at De Iuliis; he is the son of Ian and Debra Burgess-Moore of Moorebank Wines, and all Grandis tastings are poured at the family's Moorebank cellar door on Palmers Lane.
Structure
Grape
Picked on Stef's structure profile.
