blueberry and spicecake flavors are braced by an undercurrent of smoky minerality
and it promises to unfurl over a long life
Fruit flavours roll through blackberry pastille
Juicy up front and through the long finish
This wine has matured for 36 months on lees
Te Mata Estate Awatea Cabernet Merlot 2023 Blanc de Blancs blueberry and spicecake flavors areThe 2023 Awatea Cabernets Merlot comprises 52% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Cabernet Franc. Aromatically, this wine is thrilling: dusty cassis, bramble, raspberry pip, blood iodine, sweet tobacco, raw cocoa, violet perfume, tarragon and fennel and a hint of hazelnut nutmeg. In the mouth, the wine is savory, structural, spicy and chewy, with a ductile splay of tannin that moves across the palate and through the finish. The palate speaks of