Signature Wines The Coordinates Tempinot 2019
- 89
- $35
- Drink by: 2021 - 2024
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From the Adelaide Hills, a blend of 60% tempranillo and 40% pinot noir – hence the weird name – from vineyards which are adjacent to each other. The pinot spends 10 months in French oak.
I can’t think of too many blends between these two varieties. Actually I can’t think of any others, but it seems an experiment with legs. A pinot-like colour but the aroma is neither one thing, nor the other, perhaps that is the point. An earthy note with some animal skin characters. Some very good complexity emerging with a nice flick of acidity. Mid-length, though I do think that a touch more length would be to its benefit. For me, 89 points, but I would add, that as a wine-obsessive, it is still the first in this collection I would wish to try. Something different is always appealing and I would encourage other wine geeks to give this a go. You will not be disappointed.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
