HAWKE'S BAY
An artisan food friendly wine with texture, palate weight, length and balance.
Six years in the making, the 2014 Merlot is the first it’s kind from the Vineyard.
Outstanding concentration and elegance. Lifted stone fruit, citrus peel, and toasty oak aromas accurately foretell ripe fruit flavours and fine oak concentration on from palate.
Not bottle shown. The dense hue with fresh purple rim foretells the lifted fruit, floral notes with a hint of cherry and white pepper.
The 2013 vintage was truly outstanding. Selected from that vintage was the best fruit from our two blocks to produce our first single vineyard, selected barrel Reserve wine.
Intense tropical notes with passionfruit and white flesh stone fruits dominating. Intense aromatics on the nose coupled with a round almost creamy texture
Blackberry and black forest chocolate with a hint of spice. Ripe dark berry fruits with lifted pepper and spice finishing with soft velvet tannins.
Awards: Gold Hawkes Bay Wine Awards 2016 Nose: Hazelnut and cream. Taste:Luscious flavours of apricot, and stonefruit with a persistent backbone of citrus fruit.
Delicate traditional Hawkes Bay Pinot Noir with aromas of fresh berries and earth characters.

