2010 New Zealand

The Kusuda Syrah comes from a vineyard originally planted in 1992 and purchased by Kusuda in 2006. The 2010 has a fresh, glowing, purple colour and a rich, complex, spicy syrah nose with outstanding purity of fruit on the palate. Good acid balance and exceptionally long.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buying Director, June 2013

Saturated purple in colour, leading to a gamey nose of cured meats, pepper and truffle notes . Medium to full-bodied, it is intensely concentrated on the palate with fruit and savory flavours wrapped in soft, polished tannins.

The wine comes from 100% destemmed grapes, which have been fermented in open stainless steel vats with pumping-over and hand plunging, total period of maceration 27 to 28 days. Aged in French (27% new) oak barriques for 20 months. Unfined and bottled after coarse filtration.

Hiroyuki Kosuda has won critical acclaim internationally for his range of wines made in the well-established, wine-producing region of Martinborough, east of Wellington. Kosuda has built a reputation for terroir-driven, pure wines. His wine-making is characterised by painstakingly careful sorting of the fruit, to the point that he personally inspects the harvested grapes one by one and sorts out any berries that are unripe or showing the slightest damage. The production is miniscule, the majority of which, is exported to Japan and almost everything else is offered in New Zealand and Australia. Berrys is fortunate in this respect to be able to secure an allocation for these highly-rated, sought-after wines.

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.