Heirloom Vineyards McLaren Vale Touriga 2023

-Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024 - Trophy for Best Other Red Varietal
-Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024 – 95 Points, Gold

This Heirloom Vineyards Touriga was produced from our best McLaren Vale Vineyard whose clones and viticulture embody the very best in cutting edge but old school viticulture and winemaking. Hand tended vines, sorted bunch by bunch, naturally open fermented, basket-pressed and matured in French oak, 20% new, for 7 months. 

WINE NOTES 

Touriga can be a simple sip or a symphony of the senses, a moment of pleasure or an eternity of contemplation. Only the poet can know, so stop thinking and surrender. 

COLOUR 

Dark-black and midnight’s purple. Brooding... 

AROMA 

Aromas of the grape and a faint bouquet from tender oak co-mingle to deliver mulberry and loganberry, nutmeg and cinnamon. Fennel pops up, then a whiff of liquorice; wafting through are dried herbs and freshly picked green herbs, too. Floral yet savoury; dark fruits and dark earth. 

PALATE 

A dense yet strangely giving red wine. The dark berry fruits match touriga’s proud Iberian tannins. As the wine flows across your palate there comes a creamy texture with rounded and rolling blackberry and plum. The tannins maintain a disciplined rigidity, and dry the wine out at palate’s end, before a return of those lively, lovely dark berry fruit flavours: sarsaparilla, quinine, fennel. Generosity and balance combined with sheer joy and pleasure. 

OVERALL 

Speaking of Iberia, this is a red wine that does phone home; there’s something savoury and drying about it that speaks both Spanish and Portuguese. It is a red wine that sings a love song to its homeland, and wants for company a good mackerel, or a spicy octopus stew complete with too much garlic, pimenton, and chorizo

Tasting Profile

Aroma:

Blackberry, Blueberry, Pepper

Palate:

Blackberry, Fruit Cake, Tobacco

Food Pairings:

Pork

Red Meat