APPEARANCE
This wine colour is an incredible velvety magenta purple.
AROMA
Shows lifted perfumes of red berries and pepper on the nose.
PALATE
The palate is savoury and textu framed with balanced natural acidity and tannins, filled with raspberries, violets and spice.
VINIFICATION
The fruit was naturally fermented in a small open top fermenter, plunged by hand twice a day, for 8 days to extract the right amount of flavour and colour. The wine was placed in a combination of old French and Hungarian oak for a period of 9 months.
RANGE NOTES
Maturana Tinta is a near-extinct red wine grape of Spain's most famous wine region, Rioja. It is a grapegrowers heartache, being soft skinned and a late-ripening variety, which distinguishes it immediately from Rioja's favourite Tempranillo.
WINEMAKER'S COMMENTS
The 2018 Pawn Maturana Tinta is the first made in Australia, and possibly the world’s first made outside of Rioja.