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Ministry of Clouds Tempranillo Grenache 2024

PRICE PER BOTTLE
$35.00
PRICE PER SIX
$199.50
$210.00
Quantity
AvailabilityIn stock
Volume750ml
Vintages2024
Region/CountryAustralia, South Australia, McLaren Vale
Rating93 points
Description

Versatility & Grace…

How do you capture the timelessness of San Sebastian’s pinchos bars and their delectable morsels of deliciousness? Our desire to create a wine that embodied this experience but equally at home gracing our tables of our homeland is the catalyst behind our Tempranillo Grenache. Designed to befit the myriads of cultural and social influences we embrace in Modern Australia, enjoy with family and friends and experiment with flavours from far-flung places.

Ratings
Score93 points
ReviewerMarcus Ellis
Review
This was conceived as a contemporary Vale restaurant red, some 13 vintages ago. Today, the blend has benefitted from new estate-planted clones of tempranillo. As is the way here, this saw an array of nuanced ferments, 17 in total. The grenache came from Clarendon. The refined tension at modest weight is key, with those cola and sarsaparilla notes of the tempranillo (74%) reflected in a savoury key, and the grenache (26%) opening the nose and palate, contributing dried cherry cranberry and orange peel – or that’s how it feels. Aromatic, lighter medium-weighted, savoury and delicious.
Specifications
ClosureScrew Cap
Serving temp14-18 °C
Alcohol14%
Cellar UntilUntil 2031
Food Pairing

Try it with meats, game, poultry and seafood alike... grilled, stewed or with a whack of spice... east and west, variety is best.

Tasting Profile
nose

This wine combines lifted notes of pomegranate, sarsaparilla, violets and nutmeg typical of McLaren Vale Tempranillo, with the red berried perfume and succulence of old vine Grenache.

palate

This medium bodied wine is pretty, but deeply flavoured, and deliberately moreish. A lithe and juicy wine, it errs on the blood orange, cherry, red berry spectrum on the palate supported by a long line of ferrous tannin.