$55.00
“Mayford Tempranillo always has flavour and composure but it’s the structure that always seduces me. It wouldn’t be hard to call this release perfect.” Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Released November 2025
Perhaps the finest Mayford Tempranillo release to date, a perfectly poised wine from a stellar vintage. This wine has it all, substance, allure, depth and unaffected elegance. Svelte, well-coiffed and chockfull of potential.
The 2024 harvest was near perfect with a sustained period of warm (but not hot) days and cool nights. Slow, uniform ripening conditions have produced wines with optimal maturity, beautiful structure and phenomenal aging potential. Deeply fragrant with cinnamon, star anise, black cherry, loganberry, brambly roses and musk, the list goes on and on. Dark notes too of cola, coffee liqueur, charry charcuterie and fresh leather. This is a wine of balance, finessed, layered and complex that builds and delivers in the glass and is wrapped in a glove of fine, velvety tannins.
Tempranillo was hand-picked in ten small parcels over the last 14 days of March. Each separate batch was chilled and cold soaked prior to natural ferment in open pots with extensive hand plunging. Some batches had a percentage of stalk and whole bunch inclusion and others, extended post ferment-maceration. Ten ferments, five clones.
Each wine was then basket pressed before being put to barrel for maturation in French barriques (25% new) for eleven months, retaining malo lees for texture and complexity before blending and filtration.
“Mayford Tempranillo always has flavour and composure but it’s the structure that always seduces me.
It wouldn’t be hard to call this release perfect. Certainly the integration of the various components is elite. It’s pure of fruit, polished, comes awash with dry, fine, sandy tannin and pushes long through the finish. The 2023 release is a belter; this is an excellent follow-up. It tastes of dark berries, minted vanilla, floral and herb notes, chicory and a bright berried note that I couldn’t quite nail. It’s joyously good, basically. It will age magnificently. And the tannin here checks out beautifully.”
95+ Points Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Drink 2030–2040+
Bottled February 2025
Bottled under screwcap.
