WILLUNGA 100 TEMPRANILLO 2022

Winery notes (2022 Vintage)
"Bright aromatics of red plums and cherry complimented with some earthy toasted spice. The palate shows generousity with flavours of blueberry and dark plum fruits and an earthiness that gives the wine a savoury profile. The tannins are fine grained and persistent, supporting the juicy fruit characters.

Our Tempranillo comes from a cool climate vineyard at approximately 280m above sea level, adjacent to the picturesque Kuipto forest. Vines are trellised with a single cordon, on a loamy clay soil and is planted on an East facing slope.

Fruit was crushed and chilled to a stainless steel open fermenter for a 4 day cold soak then underwent a 100% wild fermentation. The wine was fermented to sugar dry on skins then basket pressed 3 days after alcoholic fermentation had finished when the structure of the wine felt balanced and complete. Once pressed the wine was racked off gross lees to old French oak puncheons for malolactic fermentation and maturation. Wine remained in barrel for 8 months. No fining, vegan friendly."

92/100 Ken Gargett, WinePilot.com, August 2023 (2022 Vintage)
"A fresh and youthful style of Tempranillo, reminiscent of the Joven examples from Rioja. 100% wild ferment in old French oak puncheons for eight months. A deep magenta/purple, there are notes of warm earth, cloves, spices, cherries, leather and dry herbs. Youthful and fresh with good focus and direction supported by fine tannins. Notes of black fruits and coffee grinds emerge on the palate which shows excellent length. Enjoy this over the next half decade."

90/100 Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, April 2023 (2022 Vintage)
"Good perfume, boysenberry, raspberry, and cherry, biscuit spices, a minor amount of mint. It’s medium-bodied, fresh and well-balanced, cool acidity, quite thick grainy tannin, and a lively finish of good length. Good stuff. Altogether pleasant, and I like that it’s not trying too hard."