2022 Tempranillo

Tempranillo

ID - Snake River Valley

$32.00 / 750 mL Bottle

Alcohol 13.9%

Tempranillo has quickly become one of our benchmark wines here at Indian Creek Winery. We first started making single barrel batches of the variety in 2008, planted our own in 2014, and have settled in to making about 10 barrels of Tempranillo every vintage. While most years we try to keep our estate Stowe Vineyard Tempranillo as a separate bottling, this vintage we found that a blend of Stowe Vineyard and Sawtooth Vineyard Tempranillo married so well it was too good bottle them separate. Sometimes with blending the sum is greater than the equal of the parts and that is definitely the case here. Stowe Vineyard bring structure, acid, and boldness to the blend, while Sawtooth Vineyard brings ripe fruit, plush tannins, and complexity. Enjoy! Winemaking Notes: The fruit was picked in the early AM and crushed/destemmed promptly. The must was then cold soaked on the skins for 3 days and inoculated with yeast. Fermentation lasted about 9 days after which the wine was pressed, and racked to 1 neutral and 1 new French oak barrel. The wine was then inoculated with malolactic bacteria for secondary fermentation, racked again after secondary fermentation finished, and aged for a total of 20 months. The wine was bottled in August 2023