Given Hawkes Bay’s hottest summer in a decade, and its driest for 30 years, 2009 was a nigh-on perfect growing season for cabernet sauvignon. With the noted input of vines of over 20 years of age, Coleraine ’09 is ‘the wine of a lifetime’.
Te Mata Estate believes Coleraine ’09 is the greatest Coleraine yet, surpassing the stellar ’05 and ’07. Decide for yourself at Te Mata Estate’s Showcase, where both vintages will be tasted alongside the new release Coleraine ’09.
THE DIVINE NINES
For the first time in Te Mata Estate’s history, Coleraine and Awatea ’09 have been reviewed prior to release. In October 2010, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate said Te Mata Estate “has fashioned a clutch a stunning wines in both 2008 and 2009” and declared Coleraine and Awatea ‘09, “bona fide classics in the making”.
Sales of Awatea continue to gain momentum. The ’07 vintage sold out in eight months, the ’08 did the same. To honour our long time friend, Auckland wine trade personality José Hernandez, we released an early José-dedicated bottling. Now, Awatea ’09 under our regular label is back.
“The 2009 could turn out to be a spectacular Awatea. There is already so much character and charm here.” Robert Parker’s Advocate, October 2010.
Along with Elston, Zara and Bullnose ’09, Te Mata Estate’s Showcase 2011 will also feature the new release Cape Crest ’10.
PERFECT TEN
The rise in popularity of barrel fermented sauvignon blanc continues to introduce new fans to ‘the original’, Te Mata Estate’s Cape Crest. The 2010 vintage has produced an exceptional Cape Crest, showing ripe nectarine and strawberry flavours, with mineral notes to its long complex finish. A perfect ten.
Coleraine2009 – The Wine of a Lifetime!
“When we chose to move to Hawkes Bay, we did so because we thought it was the region with the best prospects for making blended red wines – modern clarets – to a competitive international standard.
We purchased Te Mata Estate in 1974, 37 years ago, because it owned vineyards with north facing slopes rather than flat land, and because we believed that these aspects, in common with most of the best vineyards in the world, give an aromatic intensity and style, natural reduction in vigour, and quality of tannins that are fundamental elements of quality.
What a ride it has been! From the first vintage of Coleraine in 1982, to the upcoming release of the ’09, we’ve had to deal with all the usual factors that get in the way. The weather, the farming lobbies that didn’t want grapes grown in Hawkes Bay, wine fashion, doctrinal bureaucracy, and occasionally our own wavering self-confidence.
Despite all this, our customers have remained our greatest believers in us and have kept us going. So well, in fact, that this March we launch the best wine we have ever made, Coleraine ’09. If, to date, Coleraine has been recognised as being of second growth quality, the ’09 begs the question as to the level we have now reached.
Coleraine ’09 is the wine that proves to us that our early hopes were not in vain, we were right, and that, yet again, we are raising the bar for ourselves.
We hope you agree.” - John Buck
For The Tasting
On Arrival
- Cape Crest ’10
- Zara ’09
- Elston ’09
- Bullnose ’09
Formal Tasting
Odds On
- Awatea ’05
- Awatea ’07
- Awatea ’09
- Coleraine ’05
- Coleraine ’07
- Coleraine ’09
Tickets $30.00
Available at Vino Fino
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