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Buy OnlineWinery notes (2019 Vintage)
"This wine is an expression of all our vineyards: Sea, Earth and Stone. The outstanding 2019 Vintages, combined with low yielding vines, handpicked fruit and extended maturation in high-quality French oak has produced a wine showing elegance and perfume with great flavour concentration, and find structure. "
5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, August 2024 (2019 Vintage)
"Sweetly fruited and complex, the inviting bouquet shows blackberry, smoked game, toasted spice and roasted hazelnut aromas, leading to a wonderfully weighted palate offering fleshy texture backed by layers of fine tannins, making it sturdy and robust with a sustained velvety finish. Gorgeously stylish and harmonious, with excellent structure and balance. At its best: now to 2031."
Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, August 2024 (2019 Vintage)
"A complete bouquet, a complete wine, vibrant and varietal with a bouquet of fresh black currant and barrel spices, roasted red skinned orchard fruits, tobacco and plum, violets and new leather, baking spices and wood smoke. Lovely weight and mouthfeel, dry with a core of fruit flavours that reflect the bouquet, a decent backbone of acidity, firm tannins and lengthy complex finish. What’s not to like! Perfect now and through 2029."
94/100 Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review, August 2024 (2019 Vintage)
"Plush and perfumed oak. Baking spice and white pepper, blackberry and cassis fruit with sweet floral overtones filling the glass. Svelte and opulent on the entry, with fine, rounded fruit tannins and some grippy oak firming it up towards the back without interrupting the flow. Subtle and long, mid-weight fruit persists—unchanged—through to the back where it is joined by earthy seed spice and a hint of dried herb. Still youthful, compact but stylish."
5 Stars & 18.5+/20 (94) Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Reviews, September 2024 (2019 Vintage)
"Deep ruby-red with a purple tinge, lighter on the rim. This has a broody, rich bouquet with aromas of dark plum, blackberry, violet, black tea, pepper, cured meat and smoky earth. Full-bodied, aromas of black plum and blackberry entwined with black tea, violet, unfolding black pepper, liquorice, earthy and savoury nuances. Dusty tannins lightly coated the mouthfeel, providing a velvety texture reflecting tea smoke and earthy minerals. Invigorating acidity flows smoothly, refreshes the rich, dark nuances, and carries a long, savoury finish. Match with wild boar cannelloni and lamb rack over the next 5+ years. Handpicked fruit from 40% STONE vineyard (Gimblett Gravels), 37% EARTH (Bridge Pa) and 23% SEA (Te Awanga), small batch fermented of individual vineyard blocks, aged 22 months in French oak barrels, 25% new oak. The final blend was further aged 10 months in the tank. 13.5% alc."
