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Buy OnlineGold Medal – Hawkes Bay Wine Awards 2024
Vidal reserve Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon has long been one of the top value Bordeaux styles to come out of Hawkes Bay. The 2020 crafted exclusively from Gimblett Gravels fruit and matured in barrel for 18 months continues this fine form. It offers excellent value.
Winery notes (2020 Vintage)
"Complex aromas of dark fruits, fragrant oak, and savoury herbs combine on the palate showing a depth of flavour, texture and balance.
Fruit for this wine was grown in our acclaimed Gimblett Gravels vineyards. Naturally free draining and low vigour soils, meticulous vineyard management and the superb 2020 season has produced a wine showing character, depth and clarity of flavour with fine structure. Low yielding vines have produced fruit with good concentration and richness that is balanced with natural acidity keeping the wine fresh.
Individual vineyard parcels were harvested, destemmed, lightly crushed and fermented in small batches. During ferment, the batches were gently hand plunged and pumped over the skins to extract desirable tannin, flavour and colour. The wines were then pressed off and run to French oak barrels where they completed malolactic fermentation. After maturing in barrel for 18 months (15% new), the batches were lightly fined, naturally settled, blended and gently filtered before bottling."
4 ½ Stars Michael Cooper, The Listener Magazine (2020 Vintage)
"Looking for a classy, great-value red? Grown in the Gimblett Gravels and matured for 18 months in French oak barrels, this 4-year-old is mouthfilling, with strong red berry and blackcurrant flavours, finely integrated oak, spicy, nutty notes adding complexity and ripe, supple tannins. Best drinking 2026+."
