2024 Ministry of Clouds McLaren Vale Tempranillo

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How do you capture the timelessness of San Sebastians 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 myriad of cultural and social influences we embrace in Modern Australia enjoy with family and friends and experiment with flavours from far-flung places.
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Producer Ministry of Clouds
Region McLaren Vale
Varietal Tempranillo
Vintage 2024
Alcohol % 14
Reviews 93 points Silver Halliday Wine Companion 2026
Bottle Volume 750 ML
Tasting Notes
This wine combines fragrant notes of pomegranate sarsaparilla violets and freshly turned earth typical of McLaren Vale Tempranillo with the red berried perfume and succulence of old vine Grenache. 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.
Winemakers Notes
This wine is based upon three vineyards of Tempranillo from cool elevated sites in Blewitt Springs the McLaren Foothills and our own estate vineyard atop the Onkaparinga Ridge... blended with old vine Grenache from a range of vineyards up to a 100 plus years of age. A blend of 17 separate small ferments picked over 6 weeks to provide layered complexity and retain acid and ranging from 0 whole bunch up to 100. Each of the open ferments were from indigenous yeasts and worked very gently to preserve delicacy and time on skins was extended in 2024 up to 7 weeks to further build savoury tannin line. After pressing the wine was matured in a mixture of concrete eggs old French oak puncheons and foudres for 7 months maturation before bottling...

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About Ministry of Clouds

Ministry of Clouds is a toast to the pursuit of a life well-lived, and those who savour the freedom it affords. Our business was borne of this desire – to carve out our own path by relinquishing the security of the past and embracing the unpredictability of life. The partnership of two corporate refugees, our wines speak of the land and distill the essence of the season, embodying a spirit of independence and adventure, each one true to their style and place. McLaren Vale is our heartland, where our reds are made with grapes from our own 11ha plot and other carefully selected, often ancient vines. We favour a modern take on classic styles and meticulous attention to detail. Through our wines, we celebrate those growers who persisted while others begged them to turn their land to other pursuits. Our reds revel in Grenache, Shiraz, Mataro and Tempranillo – restrained and poised, of modest build and delicate balance, while our whites – a crystalline, dry Clare Valley Riesling and Tasmanian Chardonnay – hail from these distant but proven regions.
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