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99
/ 100
Sam Kim -
96
/ 100
James Suckling -
96
/ 100
Huon Hooke
Red
Classification
Shiraz
Variety
2021
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
New Zealand
Country
Hawkes Bay,
Region
13.0%
Alcohol %
5-10 Years
Cellaring
Scores
99 / 100"Expressing precision and purity, combined with brooding strength and complexity, this is spectacular and breathtaking. Immediately appealing with dark plum, sweet cherry, graphite, olive, spicy oak and floral aromas, it’s succulent and fleshy in the mouth delivering layers of seductive flavours backed by beautifully infused tannins. It’s mouthfilling and velvety with a prolonged engaging finish."
- Sam Kim
96 / 100
"This includes some Gimblett Gravel fruit which gives black and white pepper, iodine, lead pencil, and black fruit aromas and flavors. Tar and asphalt. Full-bodied and tied in with a lovely structure and focus. Linear and very racy. Terrific integration and structure. Drinkable, but better in two or three years. Rated: 96 Points"
- James Suckling
96 / 100
"Almost glass-staining purple colour, very bright; the bouquet loaded with an amalgam of brown spice aromas, toasted nuts too, including clove, nutmeg and pepper. A powerful, concentrated and tensioned wine with bright acidity and firm but measured tannins that lead into a very long finish. Great potential here."
- Huon Hooke
Tasting Notes
Established in 1896, Te Mata Estate remains family owned, producing internationally recognised wines exclusively from its Hawkes Bay vineyards.
Grown traditionally in the Bullnose and Isosceles vineyards, in the Bridge Pa Triangle inland from Hastings, in Hawke's Bay, this classy red is hand-picked and matured for 15 to 16 months in French oak barriques. Unlike its Estate Vineyards stablemate (below), it is not blended with Viognier, and the vines for the Bullnose label are cropped lower. Deeply coloured, with a highly fragrant, spicy bouquet, it is mouthfilling and supple, with concentrated, ripe plum and black-pepper flavours, good tannin backbone, and a long finish. Already approachable. (The debut 1992 vintage, tasted in late 2019, was past its peak, but fragrant, mellow and still offering a lot of pleasure.)
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity