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2010
Te Mata Awatea Cabernet/Merlot
(750ml)
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Producer: |
Te Mata Estate
temata.co.nz
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| Appellation: |
Hawke's Bay - New Zealand
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| Type: |
red
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| Varietal: |
Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
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n/a |
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Alcohol %: |
13.5 |
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rated
(2000 vintage, 750ml bottle)
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March 26, 2002
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www.wineoftheweek.com
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"(52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot) The colour is as dense as heck. At first the fragrant aromas are enhanced by oak but give the wine a good swirl and the aroma becomes more leathery. In the mouth there is first a baked plum flavour then quite hard tannins together with the leathery character of merlot dominating. There's a cigar-like smokiness and some meatiness but as the wine opens up in the glass the flavours become more fragrant with a raspberry and plum fruit spectrum on the smoky finish. It's a meal of a wine with the density of the texture. Aimed to be made in the mould of Coleraine but in a more accessible style, today I find it not as accessible as the wine it tries to imitate - it simply needs more time. 13.0% alcohol"
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