Other Reds

Heathcote, Victoria. Brick red. Herbal teas, fragrant floral notes, black olive tapenade and bees wax/honey aromas. Savoury olive and thyme quickly succumbs to the classic mouth-filling assertive nebbiolo tannins. This is tempered by sweet lingering flavours of blueberries...

 

Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Awatea has a bright magenta colour with enticing aromas of black cherry, raspberry, plum and cedar. The palate is beautifully balanced with an immediate surge of boysenberry and vanilla spice leading to fine, ripe tannins providing a classically refreshing finish...

Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.  Widely regarded as NZ’s greatest red wine. Exceptionally long lived it shows concentrated dark berry characters, a firm, finely textured palate with a sustained finish. A powerful full-bodied wine that rewards cellaring, Coleraine will evolve over 10-15 years...

Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Coleraine ’23 is apex cabernet, a singular wine that could only result from a remarkable vintage. Combining an unequalled harvest, cutting-edge winemaking technology, and 127 years of fine wine pedigree, Coleraine ’21 stands alone – a wine of unique provenance even by Te Mata Estate’s exacting standards...

 

Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Prune, coffee, redcurrant and wild strawberry on the palate all add depth to the wine’s immediate appeal - balanced fruit concentration that glides to a savoury finish and plush, firm tannins...

 

Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Gamay noir the grape of Beaujolais, produces a delicious wine bursting with crushed red-berry characters. Its vibrant fruit provides immediate appeal and flavour to match spicy cuisine...

Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. This traditional blend of Bordeaux varieties is a consistently rewarding, complex wine showing ripe blackcurrant, plum and chocolate flavours with a supple and sustained palate...

 

Vino de la Tierra de Castilla, Spain. This blend is predominately Tempranillo and Syrah but also includes a small proportion of a number of others. A wonderful, vibrant deep purple colour with rich, ripe spicy and brambly fruit, rounded tannins and a lively finish...

Abruzzo, Italy. Ruby red color with garnet reflections, intense and persistent fragrance; The bouquet is intense, fruity, persistent, with notes of dried flowers, spice, liquorice, marasca cherries. The palate is stylish, velvety...

Abruzzo, Italy. Being fruit of an exceptional harvest gives it a full, enveloping body, which finishes with liquorice and cloves. The wine finishes with a lingering after-taste of black pepper and cranberry...