2024 Corymbia Rocket's Vineyard Tempranillo Malbec

The Corymbia Red Blend is a wine that you won't find anywhere else in Australia. This hails from "Rocket's Vineyard", Rob Mann's father's vineyard in the Swan Valley that Rob himself helped plant as a boy in the 1980s. This year, sees 52% Temp married to 48% Malbec.

With a combination of natural and carbonic fermentation, there is a lovely interplay between the dark and dense tones – blackberry, coffee, olive, earth, leather – and the extremely bright ones – mulberry, cranberry, blueberry, and aniseed. It's a Tempranillo that has actual shape and structure, and importantly, immense drinkability.

This is not a typical varietal blend but has worked from this site so consistently over the last decade or so. It's an idiosyncratic wine and one of our favourites in all of WA wine.

Whether you drink it now or in a few years, you're definitely in for a treat.

95 points
"Initially reticent but opens up to deliver bright red fruits. Cherry, plum. Quince. Black strap licorice and dried flowers. A little rubbed sage. Beautiful energy and freshness, a restrained opulence. The sheened flow is corralled and made gritty and granular by beautifully toothsome tannins."
- Nick Ryan (The Australian)

94 points
"A stony and ferrous quality, a sooty feel to tannin, with a lively finish of excellent length. Distinctive and very good." 
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)