Hungerford Hill Hilltops Tempranillo 2022

Way back in 2004 winemaker Bryan Currie asked a local grower in Hilltops if they would mind planting Tempranillo, a grape he loves. After a spell working for some big names elsewhere, Bryan returned to NSW to work at the Hunter Valley's Hungerford Hill, and found the vines not only still there but thriving. Though a Hunter Valley winery, Hungerford Hill uses fruit from both Tumbarumba and Hilltops (they were the first winery to use Tumbarumba fruit, the second to use fruit from Hilltops). Awarding it 93pts Jane Faulkner in The Halliday Wine Companion calls this wine “alluring” and “captivating” with “heady aromas of raspberries, red roses, wine gum lollies and lots of woodsy spices”.