Te Mata Estate Awatea Cabernet Merlot 2023 Blanc de Blancs Fruit flavours roll through blackberry

Fruit flavours roll through blackberry pastille

and it promises to unfurl over a long life

two weeks on skins

as opposed to 2021 when ripeness was more gradual

there are silky tannins and momentous length

Te Mata Estate Awatea Cabernet Merlot 2023 Blanc de Blancs Fruit flavours roll through blackberryThe 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