Bondar Junto Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2023 750ml

JUNTO (Spanish, Portuguese): ‘Together’

Grenache (65%), Shiraz (16%), Mataro (8%), Cinsault (8%), Carignan (3%).

A Southern Rhone style blend that is intended to be unpretentious and an easy to drink, bistro style. The Grenache leads the blend with its pretty red fruits and perfume, and the other varieties help to 'complete' the wine, elevating it to a more complex and balanced place. The main contributors to this are the Shiraz which adds flesh, and the Mataro which gives savoury spice and some structure. The Cinsault contributes high-toned red fruit flavours and lightness from its 11% alcohol, and the Carignan gives deeper, darker flavours with a beautiful herby lift and structure. The wine is aged entirely in old French oak hogsheads to allow gentle micro-oxygenation without contributing any overt oak flavour.