Awatea Cabernets/Merlot, Hawke’s Bay — 2021 – Wine Advocate – 96 Points
96 points
“The 2021 Awatea Cabernets-Merlot is a thrilling wine and a worthy entree to the Coleraine—one of the Southern Hemisphere’s best Cabernet blends. You get red fruits, savory exoticism, enoki mushroom, bay leaf, black tea leaves, pastrami, cassis bramble, red apple skins, tobacco leaf, vanilla pod, salted heirloom tomato, blackcurrant, flowers and delicate nuances of umami in profusion, along with crushed oyster shell, tea tree and native rosemary. It’s bloody gorgeous. A sensational wine, it has detail, nuance and line, and it’s very long and placid but precise.”
Awatea Cabernets/Merlot, Hawke’s Bay — 2021 – Wine Advocate – 96 Points