2023 Corymbia Rocket's Vineyard Tempranillo Malbec

Highly Rated NICK RYAN TOP 100
A vibrant and velvety Tempranillo/Malbec blend with beautiful aromatics and excellent structure.
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The Corymbia Red Blend is a wine that reflects its origins perfectly and offers so much.

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.

With maturation taking place in the same vat used for the fermentation, the aromas and flavours having a feel of slow evolution, unlocked by letting the wine breathe for a while before drinking.

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

95 points
"Love this drink as it’s savoury, spicy, intriguing, delicious and more. A perfect counterplay between acidity and tannins, fruit and savoury inputs... It’s a joyful drink. Uplifting, and this ’23 the best to date."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points
"Plenty of exotic spice, liquorice, walnut, new leather, cherry, blueberry, seaweed. Medium-bodied, a lovely grainy grip and chew to tannin, cherry, boysenberry and a pippy freshness to acidity, suffused with a ferrous and ‘mineral’ feel, umami and nutty, with a bright and flavoursome finish of excellent length. Texture. Charisma. Such a good wine."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)
95 points
"It’s nimble and contemporary, considerate of where it comes from, and looking into the future from a platform built by the generations that came before. Fragrant dark fruit, finely sculpted flesh, a gravelly tannin grip. The Swan Valley’s past and future in the one bottle."
- Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)

93
"On the nose, the wine is lifted, floral and aromatic, with rose petals, honeysuckle, blackberry, black cherry, pink peppercorn and a hint of petrichor. In the mouth, the wine is detailed but very fine. The tannins speak so eloquently of the conditions and create an almost febrile web of support and texture in the mouth, with graphite and ash, dried lavender and bone broth. It is a distinct single-vineyard wine that offers nuance and balance."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

95 points - "Plenty of exotic spice, liquorice, walnut, new leather, cherry, blueberry, seaweed. Medium-bodied, a lovely grainy grip and chew to tannin, cherry, boysenberry and a pippy freshness to acidity, suffused with a ferrous and ‘mineral’ feel, umami and nutty, with a bright and flavoursome finish of excellent length. Texture. Charisma. Such a good wine. All the slate and good things that the Swan Valley can deliver. Superb." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

95 points - "Love this drink as it’s savoury, spicy, intriguing, delicious and more. A perfect counterplay between acidity and tannins, fruit and savoury inputs, the reductive winemaking creating part of the latter. Dark cherries and kirsch, raspberries all dusted with brown spice, nori, slatey with a distinct ferrous note. The mid-weighted palate is juicy and tangy yet full of fine, sandy tannins and refreshing acidity. It’s a joyful drink. Uplifting, and this ’23 the best to date." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "Rob and Genevieve Mann are continuing the Mann family’s century-long run of producing brilliant wines from Australia’s second-oldest wine region. But this is no hidebound relic. It’s nimble and contemporary, considerate of where it comes from, and looking into the future from a platform built by the generations that came before. Fragrant dark fruit, finely sculpted flesh, a gravelly tannin grip. The Swan Valley’s past and future in the one bottle." - Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)

93 points - "The 2023 Rocket's Vineyard Tempranillo Malbec is composed of 56% Tempranillo and 44% Malbec and hails from a cooler year in the Swan Valley. On the nose, the wine is lifted, floral and aromatic, with rose petals, honeysuckle, blackberry, black cherry, pink peppercorn and a hint of petrichor. In the mouth, the wine is detailed but very fine. The tannins speak so eloquently of the conditions and create an almost febrile web of support and texture in the mouth, with graphite and ash, dried lavender and bone broth. It is a distinct single-vineyard wine that offers nuance and balance." - Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

Customer Reviews

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3 reviews
  • AG
    Anne G.
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    4 months ago
    Wine Knowledge Level Enthusiast
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Gorgeous Red

    This is a delicious wine - very dark, smooth and just a clever combination I think. Yummy

  • JG
    John G.
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    Wine Knowledge Level Cork Dork
    1 year ago
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    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Sublime drop

    This blend is so approachable as a drink now wine. The balance & smooth tannin finish just has you filling the glass again!

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    Dr S.
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    2 years ago
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    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Elegant top-notch blend

    Temp is not my thing but marrying it with Malbec’s rusty sinewy tannin tames the heady cola notes of the former (with no sign of the dreaded sarsaparilla). Floral, dark fruited and with savoury hints. The tempered rich palate is the hero for mine. Densely packed yes, but with powdery fine tannin. Elegant for Swan Valley. Tasted best out of a Riedel tulip shaped ‘Hermitage’ glass.

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This vintage marks the 10th release of our Swan Valley red which is a huge milestone for Rob & Genevieve. 2023 was a beautiful, mild vintage which allowed us to produce exactly what we want from a Swan Valley red wine.

A field blend of 55% Tempranillo and 45% Malbec; the certified organic grapes were hand harvested on the same day. The fruit was then individually berry sorted and combined prior to carbonic maceration and natural co-fermentation in a single French oak vat. Maturation followed in the same seasoned French oak vat for 10 months.

An aromatic pop of cherry, blueberry and Chinese five spice jumps from the glass. Medium bodied with pomegranate, cocoa and squid ink umami which fill the palate, whilst soft gravelly tannins drive home a crunchy, vibrant, juicy, fleshy, turgid, lip smacking and moreish finish!

Price Bracket $41 to $50
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Tempranillo
Country Australia
Region Swan Valley
Australian State WA
Feature Women in Wine
High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Halliday Wine Companion
The Weekend Australian
The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 95
93
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
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