Hither & Yon Touriga Tempranillo
WHY WE LOVE IT
- An easy-drinking, and attractive wine with a brilliant purple hue.
- This Portuguese-style red is juicy on the mid-palate with wild raspberry, cherry cola, sinewy tannins, and spiced oak.
- A true food-friendly wine, made for the table.
Varietal Composition: 51% Tourgia Nacional, 49% Tempranillo
Elaboration: The fruit was hand-picked, gently destemmed and cold crushed to a 2 tonne open top stainless fermenter. Retaining at least 50% of whole berries, keeping cool, cold soaking the fruit and then gently warmed to ferment over 3 days, wild yeast fermentation for 8 days. Once the wine was dry, it was pressed to tank where the free run juice and pressings were combined, transferred to oak after another four weeks.Oak was three year-old French hogsheads where the wine underwent malolactic fermentation. After six months in Oak, the wine was bottled at night following a micro screen filtration (no fining), on November 27th, 2020. This wine is sealed under Stelvin screwcap.
Tasting Notes: Pretty, aromas like Lavender, Bergamot, and Earl grey tea. Poached pears and rhubarb. Aniseed and hessian underneath. Bright and juicy to start, super attractive but reveals its natural side soon into the palate, quite firm, spicy (garam masala, green cardamom) and herbaceous, roasted coffee beans to finish.
PRESS
2021 – 90 Vinous | 92 Wine Advocate
PRODUCER BACKGROUND
Established in 1980 by their parents, Richard and Malcolm Leask have shaken up the status quo, creating “a significant culture of change” in South Australia’s McLaren Vale. The brothers are futurists, embracing innovation and planting alternative varieties to attract a new generation of wine lovers while helping to save their part of the planet. Hither & Yon is South Australia’s first carbon-neutral certified winery.
Regenerative agriculture – “from grass to glass” – is the foundation of the Leask brothers’ philosophy toward producing award-winning wine and protecting the environment. Regenerative agriculture is a dynamic, holistic system emphasizing carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and soil nutrition as a way of conserving water and naturally nourishing the vines.