Te Mata Estate Awatea Cabernet Merlot 2023 750ml

Te Mata Estate Awatea Cabernet Merlot 750ml

95 POINTS Sam Kim | wineorbit.co.nz

96 POINTS Erin Larkin | Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

5 STARS Michael Cooper | The Listener

Te Mata Tasting Note
With a gleaming crimson core and ruby rim, Awatea Cabernets/Merlot ’23 is enticingly perfumed with blackberry, bay, violets, and vanilla. The satisfying palate is detailed, poised and texturally rewarding, interplaying plum, black olive and sandalwood notes with salinity, refreshing acidity and bright tannin length. It has a captivating elegance that is classically Te Mata.

5 Stars & Buy of the Week (Michael Cooper, NZ Listener)
“This refined red is a generous blend of merlot, cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc. Mouthfilling, it has deep blackcurrant, plum, spice and herb flavours, in a savoury, supple style, showing excellent vigour and harmony.”

96/100 (Erin Larkin, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate)
“This wine is thrilling: dusty cassis, bramble, raspberry pip, blood/iodine, sweet tobacco, raw cocoa, violet perfume, tarragon and fennel and a hint of hazelnut/nutmeg. This will evolve beautifully in bottle. I love it. It is a magnificent wine and a tremendous value.”

95/100 (Sam Kim, Wine Orbit)
“Wonderfully composed and expressed… harmonious and expressive… a magnificent Bordeaux-style red that’s beautifully crafted and splendidly structured, making it hugely appealing.”

ALC: 13.5%

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