Hawkes Bay
New Zealand's second largest region by plantings, with 4,500 hectares (or 20 percent of the country's total) in 2006, Hawkes Bay continues to fine-tune its Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon/Franc Bordeaux blends, offering some fine, fresh, pencil-shaving-nuanced examples, particularly from the Te Mata Estate. The more recent success story seems to be that of Syrah, in a cool, black pepper Northern Rhône style.
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Te Mata Estate,
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Te Mata Estate is New Zealand's oldest winery, dating from the early 1890s. Te Mata is best known for its Bordeaux blend, ‘Coleraine’. This is widely regarded in New Zealand as the country’s greatest red wine. It has all the richness one would expect from the New World but with an Old World savouriness and poise
The Coleraine 2010 has a youthful dark crimson colour and displays Coleraine’s gorgeous floral aromas, together with macerated blackberries woven with graphite and thyme. The palate is pure and very precise, building in intensity, with a long fine tannin structure providing great length. A blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, and 6% Cabernet Franc, it will continue to develop in bottle and provide great enjoyment up to 15 years from harvest.
The Coleraine 2010 has a youthful dark crimson colour and displays Coleraine’s gorgeous floral aromas, together with macerated blackberries woven with graphite and thyme. The palate is pure and very precise, building in intensity, with a long fine tannin structure providing great length. A blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, and 6% Cabernet Franc, it will continue to develop in bottle and provide great enjoyment up to 15 years from harvest.
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Te Mata Estate,
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2009 Coleraine from the wonderful Te Mata estate is rather restrained and slightly closed on the nose, but shows deep, rich notes of tar, damsons and just a touch of bramble, a little hint of oak but overall neat and well appointed. This order and structure is replicated on the palate where the fruit, which is extraordinarily pure, brings with it a warmth and luxury. The spice of the oak is well integrated and climbs hand in hand with the fine, almost feminine tannins which slowly close the palate. Beneath this there is a dark minerality adding another layer of complexity to this excellent wine.
This has all the attributes to mature very well over the coming ten years, but I believe this will be at its very best in six to eight years.
Gary Owen, Fine Wine Sales Advisor
This has all the attributes to mature very well over the coming ten years, but I believe this will be at its very best in six to eight years.
Gary Owen, Fine Wine Sales Advisor
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Te Mata Estate,
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Opaque purple in colour and a richly fruited nose jumps from the glass. Hints of pepper and spice. Rich medium palate, lovely coating mouthfeel, fruit profile is Morello cherry and red fruit – tannins seamlessly integrated. The wine is rich and yet has a lovely fluidity on the back palate, 2018 – 2020.
Stuart Rae, Commercial Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd
Stuart Rae, Commercial Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd
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Stuart Rae, Commercial Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd