Posted: June 15, 2017
A good wine with simple fruit, lovely bright acidity and interesting touch of lees.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Remarkably fresh aromas showing nice flintiness. Well structured palate, excellent complexity and nicely focused fruit with perfect oak handling. One succinct comment – “Yum”.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
A warm, full bodied, buttery style showing good intensity of peachy fruit and spicy oak.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
This mystery blend of unidentified grape varieties has bold, purple-flushed colour. Barrique-aged for 16 months, it is mouthfilling, vibrant and supple, in a youthful but approachable style with strong, plummy, spicy flavours, showing good complexity, and a rich, smooth finish.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
This powerful, youthful wine was grown in the inland Kereru Vineyard, at Mangatahi, hand-picked and fermented and lees-aged for 11 months in French oak barriques (25% new). Still very fresh and vibrant, it has a fragrant, complex bouquet, concentrated stonefruit…
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Posted: April 5, 2017
Smooth, dark red with ripe plum/spice flavours, and slight tamarillo and earth notes. Gamey and herby, with some savoury complexity. $56 (A)
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Posted: April 5, 2017
From a mystery blend, this is a dense, dark Hawke’s Bay red with a complex bouquet of red and black fruits, seasoned with cedary oak. Showing lovely freshness and finesse, it’s a classy, finely balanced wine, tight and very ageworthy….
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Posted: April 5, 2017
Fine, elegant style, weighty, with a slightly smoky bouquet and fresh, vibrant peach and grapefruit flavours. Tightly structured, with a long finish. Youthful wine, well worth cellaring. $40 (A)
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Posted: April 5, 2017
Sturdy, youthful, clearly varietal red, grown in the Elms Vineyard. Concentrated plum and spice flavours, seasoned with nutty oak, earthy notes adding complexity, and good tannin backbone. Best drinking 2018+. $40 (A, UK)
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Posted: April 5, 2017
This refined wine was estate-grown at Mangatahi. Fragrant and mouthfilling, it is youthful and tightly structured, with strong, vibrant, citrusy, peachy flavours, finely integrated oak (French, 25% new), fresh acidity, and very impressive delicacy, complexity and harmony. $40
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Posted: April 5, 2017
Floral, graceful, very finely textured red, grown in the Elms Vineyard. Deeply coloured, with rich, ripe blackcurrant and spice flavours, hints of dark chocolate and licorice, and a long, slightly peppery finish. Already delicious, it should be at its best…
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Attractive Gimblett Gravels red with plum, spice and herb flavours, showing good depth, and a finely textured, smooth finish.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
This ‘mystery blend’ is powerful, dark and youthful, with a strong, smoky oak influence and rich, sweet-fruit flavours that linger well. Savoury, supple and harmonious.
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Posted: April 3, 2017
Full-bodied wine from Mangatahi with ripe fruit flavours, some barrel-ferment complexity and very good depth.
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