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Mount Majura Tempranillo 2009

By Dave Worthington ⋅ January 17, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

A busy week at work last week, perfectly capped off by seeing Blues Explosion at the Espy on Friday night. Great to see these guys in a small venue. Anyway, on to the wine. This wine really stood out at the TempraNeo tasting last year (along with the Mayford), and the thing that attracts me to this wine is that it has personality. Sure, there is a nod to Spain, but this shows firmly individual and unique characters that could only be Mount Majura Tempranillo. This is what we should be doing with Tempranillo in Australia.

Mount Majura TSG 2008

By Dave Worthington ⋅ November 19, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Another cracking wine from Mount Majura, this time a blend of Tempranillo (56%) Shiraz (31%) Graciano (13%) aged in older wood. I haven’t seen a lot of Graciano aorund, I’d be interested in seeing what else is being done with this variety here. These kind of blends are really showing potential in Australia, and the resulting show a bit of Spain, a bit of France, but show through very much as Australian. Putting an Aussie stamp onTempranillo can only be a good thing.

Mount Majura Tempranillo 2008

By Dave Worthington ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

There was a little pile of foam wine mailers in my office when I got back from the US, a couple of bottles from Mouth Majura was stashed away at the bottom. Complete with a hand written note (I haven’t had one of those in years!) from Frank, the winemaker. I’ve had a couple of bottles of this wine, of various vintages, over the years and I’ve always been impressed. But this is taking CanberraTempranillo to another level. Canberra has a couple of features that make it, on paper at least, an ideal proposition for growing Tempranillo: climate and limestone in the soil. There is an old wifes tale in Spain that the best Tempranillo grows in soil rich in limestone…

Mount Majura Tempranillo 2003

By Dave Worthington ⋅ October 16, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

I've heard a lot about the Tempranillo produced by the crew at Mount Majura, all very good things of course.  The Canberra region is very similar in climate to Rioja Alta, 600-700 meters in elevation, warm enough to get the grapes ripe but very much cool climate.  Even the soil types are similar, clay loam with [...]

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