Running With Bulls Barossa Tempranillo 2016
$1899each
$227DOZEN
WineryRunning With Bulls
Fruit Tempranillo
Regions Barossa
  South Australia
Each $18.99
$227.00
Currently out of stock
It's 7.00am, singing erupts from the impassioned crowd, Viva San Fermin! A rocket focuses everyone's attention, the bulls are on their way. The congregation begin to stampede, slow at first, now faster as the sound of hooves descend. It's a blur until the third rocket. Relief and celebration, the Encierro is over! Fruit is sourced from good growers in the western ranges of Barossa, through to the valley floor and into Penrice. A great range of aroma and flavour profiles are assembled into a stylish and engaging expression of new world Tempranillo.
Tempranillo is a widely grown varietal in Spain where it is vinfied into traditional red table wines. It is also proving to be well suited to many winegrowing regions within Australia. Tempranillo has found a natural home in the Barossa where it produces an exciting wine, bright in colour and rich in fruit flavour. There are many contemporary styles which can be made from Tempranillo, fresh, juicy and vibrant. The winemaking team have chosen to showcase stylish fruit flavours and allow the oak to have a very subtle influence. Fermentation by indigenous yeasts is followed by malolactic and seven months maturation in a selection of seasoned and new Hungarian oak barrels. Alcohol 13.5%
TASTING NOTES
Deep garnet colour. Complex nose full of truffles and black cherry, lilac, wood smoke and white pepper spice. An alluring palate of red currants, dark chocolate and rhubarb with rustic Tempranillo tannins. A juicy, savoury wine with influence from subtle oak, the flavours of raspberry, cherry, liquorice and spice notes swirl around in your glass. A light acidity and long even tannins before a refreshing finish.
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About Running With Bulls Winery
Running With Bulls are leading the rush of Mediterranean varietals which can make exciting wine in South Australia’s soil and climate
In 1999, after several study visits to Spain by Yalumba luminaries Robert Hill-Smith and Louisa Rose, Tempranillo was grafted onto old Barossa rootstock. Known to thrive in a range of conditions around the world, Tempranillo has an affinity with the Barossa region, where an ideal climate helps to showcase the stylish fruit flavours of this emerging variety. The experimental fruit of Hill-Smith and Rose whet their appetites and led to further plantings. Running With Bulls»