2019 Te Mata Awatea Cabernet Merlot

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Arguably NZ's greatest producer of Bordeaux blends, this is the perfect way to get acquainted with Te Mata's refined style.
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If you want to sample the great Cabernet blends of Hawkes Bay's Te Mata Estate, the Awatea is the perfect place to start.

You get the supreme craftsmanship of a family owned winery with over a century of experience making wines in this region. Some of the best fruit in NZ. All that history. Considering all that, it's great value.

It's a wine that improves with time in bottle, but is supple enough to be opened from day one.

Stellar value here from one of New Zealand's great estates.

Awatea takes its name from the historic ship SS Awatea (a Maori word meaning “Eye of the Dawn”) that sailed the Auckland – Sydney – Wellington route in the late 1930s. The Awatea was requisitioned as a troop transport in WWII and was sunk off Algeria in 1942.
The separate parcels of grapes were destemmed before a traditional warm, plunged fermentation and extended maceration on skins. The resulting wines were then run to new and seasoned French oak barrels for ageing. Throughout this time, they were regularly topped and racked.

Region: Hawkes Bay, NZ
Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon (46%), Merlot (32%), Cabernet Franc (22%)
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Closure: 750ml
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96 point - "Very youthful and concentrated with dark berries and clove vanilla oak, smoky and forward, varietal and urgent. Great wine – young and needs time, but has power and muscle I have not really noticed before. Spicy plums and dark berries, black berry and black currant. Firm tannins and acidity, youthful, focused, high energy and very exciting." Cameron Douglas MS

95 Points - "Very bright, deep, youthful purple/red colour. The aromas are outstandingly deep and bright and youthfully fresh; violets, red and blue fruits rocketing out of the glass, oak barely visible in the background. The wine is soft-textured and medium to full-bodied, elegant and pure, seamless and long. An utterly delicious cabernet blend." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

95 Points - "It’s the best Awatea I can recall tasting... Blackcurrant, raspberry leaf, spice and perfume, dark chocolate and black tea. Medium-bodied, dense, firm and concentrated, a subtle herbal fragrance through red and black fruits, with an umami edge of black olive tapenade, a distinct ‘mineral’ ironstone feel to it, crisp raspberry acidity and flavour, a tight mesh of fine chalky tannin to close out a long bright finish. Wonderful." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

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    Just lovely Cab Merlot Cab Franc Blend.

    Has the right acid & tannin that is heaven to my palate

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