5 Stars & 93/100 - Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
"Offering excellent fruit purity and fragrance, the wine shows blackberry, blueberry, violet, olive and subtle cedar notes, leading a succulent palate that's elegantly weighted and supple. Fruit expressive and attractively complex with a fine dry finish."

96 POINTS - Andrew Caillard MW
1 of only 12 wines named in the prestigious 2020 Gimblett Gravels Annual Vintage Selection by Andrew Caillard MW. 
"Medium deep colour. Elderberry, blackberry, mulberry aromas with brambly hint cedar/ violet notes. Beautiful inky, graphite cedarwood, dark berry flavours, fine slinky textures and integrated mineral acidity. Finishes chalky firm and long. Very refined wine and characterful with superb tannin structure and fruit complexity."

Winery note
"This is a very deeply coloured wine as you would expect from a Malbec based wine. It displays rich plummy, jammy Gimblett Gravels fruit on the nose with hints of tobacco and dried herbs. On the palate it is a medley of power and concentration from Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon allied with softer Merlot tannins. Individual vineyard and varietal parcels were harvested separately and fermented with wild yeast in our open topped concrete fermenters. Hand plunging was employed to gently extract colour and tannin. After a period of post fermentation maceration the individual parcels were pressed to french oak barrels and aged in cool cellars for 18 months, before blending in November 2020. This is a full bodied and complex wine, and an ideal accompaniment to red meat dishes

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Country:

New Zealand

Region:

Hawkes Bay

Variety:

43% Malbec, 40% merlot 17% Cabernet

Style:

Big, gutsy reds

Winemaker:

Gordon russell

Closure:

Screwcap

ABV:

14%

Bottle size:

750ml

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Food Match:

Hearty red meat dishes.

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