Te Mata Awatea Cabernet Merlot 2022 15% 750ml

Te Mata Awatea Cabernet Merlot 2022 15% 750ml

TASTING NOTES

APPEARANCE
Deep 'guardsmen red'.

VINIFICATION
The separate parcels of grapes were destemmed before a traditional warm-plunged fermentation and extended maceration on skins. The resulting wines were then run to new and seasoned French oak barrels for 15 months. Throughout this time, they were regularly topped and racked. The separate wines were blended in July 2023, then returned to barrel for their second winter. The finished wine was then egg white fine and bottled in November 2023.

RANGE NOTES
Awatea takes its name from the historic ship SS Awatea (a Maori word meaning ‘Eye of the Dawn’) that sailed the Auckland – Sydney – Wellington route in the late 1930s. Th Awatea was requisitioned as troop transport in WWII and was sunk off Algeria in 1942.

GRAPE VARIETY
42% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc

Country: New Zealand
Region: Hawkes Bay
Vintage: 2022
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc
Alcohol Volume: 13.5
Closure: Cork
Volume: 750
Weight: 1.42kg
Wine Style : Red (Full Bodied)