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"An impressive red from the excellent 2007 vintage"
5 STARS: Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
5 STARS: Raymond Chan, www.raymondchanwinereviews.co.nz
5 Stars & 95/100: Gourmet Traveller Magazine
4.5 stars: Michael Cooper
100 Top New Releases: Gourmet Wine Traveller Aug / Sep 2011
"An impressive red from the excellent 2007 vintage, made by the renowned winemaker, Rod McDonald. Deep red/purple in colour, the bouquet is beautifully perfumed displaying dark plum, cassis, spice and cedar characters. It's concentrated and dense on the palate with velvety texture and a rounded mouthfeel. The finish is extra long with plenty of ripe, polished tannins. The wine shows pristine fruit intensity as well as multi-layered palate dimension. At its best: now to 2017" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Dense, dark red with rich chocolate-like characters and dark berry fruit, anise, licorice and nutty oak. A power-packed, full bodied wine with a great texture and impressive length. An exciting debut for a relatively new label. Gourmet Traveller Magazine
"The top red wine under the Frizzell label. Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon from a small Hawke’s Bay vineyard, fermented to 14.8% alc, and aged 18 months in French oak barriques. Very full, deep, dark ruby-red in colour, this has a full, solid and brooding nose of dark berry and plum fruits complexed by notes of game and meat, with distinctive inky-charry oak. A full-bodied wine, this is dense and concentrated on palate, with excellent depth of very ripe black fruits and meaty, game-like notes alongside spicy, toasty and charry oak elements. The intense flavours are framed within a firm, fine-grained structure which leads to a long, sustained, spicy, cedary finish. This is a highly flavoured and fully seasoned wine that impresses with its power. Serve with game over the next 8-12+ years. 150 cases made" Raymond Chan, www.raymondchanwinereviews.co.nz
The super-charged, still youthful 2007 vintage is a single-vineyard wine, hand-picked and matured for 18 months in French oak barriques. Densely coloured, it is muscular (14.8 per cent alcohol), with highly concentrated blackcurrant, plum, spice and dark chocolate flavours. If you like big reds, this is for you. Michael Cooper
"Deeply coloured with youthful purple edges, this wine is fragrant soft and generous. A rich plumy merlot based provides a silken fleshy silken texture to the palate, Cabernet floral aromatics and firm tannin. A bouquet of lifted plums, cassis and cedar characters, while the palate is full, rich and soft with excellent length and structure. A wine styled for approachability but that will benefit from some bottle age" WINEMAKER – ROD MCDONALD
** Competition ends June 30th 2012 **