The Pawn El Desperado Tempranillo 2025

Our first ever Vintage of El Desperado was 2011, and will always be known in Australian wine history as the vintage from hell, as many vineyards succumb to the wet summer. For the Pawn, we sacrificed making our full range of wines that year to create a brand new style wine. Although we did not set out to make the El Desperado before that vintage, when you taste this wine, by hell you will be glad we did.

A blend of grapes from our Langhorne Creek vineyards, we have taken the finest characteristics, and handcrafted a full bodied wine that can be both a drink now style or cellar nicely for the medium term.

There is lifted raspberry, cola and pomegranate, with  a bright balanced acidity on the palate, infused with a generous earthiness with ripe plum and blackcurrants and the quotidian soft, long tannins.