"Best Red Wine Buy of the Year" Michael Cooper, Buyer’s Guide, 2018
Densely coloured with a rich bouquet of dark cherry, tobacco & cedar
Enjoy with red meat & game dishes
Esk Valley Gimblett Gravels Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec 2017
Esk Valley Gimblett Gravels Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec 2017
Accolades
Awarded 4.5 Stars
Best Red Wine Buy of the Year, Michael Cooper, Buyer’s Guide, 2018
Awarded Silver Medal
New Zealand Wine of the Year Awards 2018
Description
This wine is a fragrant, complex medium bodied Gimblett Gravels blend. Densely coloured, it has a bouquet of dark cherry, tobacco and cedar, while the palate high-quality
with supple tannins. This wine can be enjoyed while young but will gain complexity with further age.
This wine was produced grown within the boundaries of the renown Gimblett Gravels subregion of Hawkes Bay. These gravel soils have excellent drainage and low vigour, ideal for the production of high- quality red grapes. Vineyard sites are close planted and yields per vine are kept low to maximise quality.
The individual parcels were destemmed to a mix of open-topped concrete and static fermenters and inoculated with selected yeast strains. Once active the ferments were hand
plunged to gently extract tannin and colour from the skins. After a period of maceration on skins post-ferment, the new wines were pressed to barrel and tank for malolactic
fermentation. The individual varietal and vineyard parcels were then aged separately in oak barriques for 12 months.
Food Pairing: Enjoy with red meat and game dishes.
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Best Merlot for such great value
Norma - 11/04/2019
This is a great wine at a very special price.
Phillip - 13/12/2018
Great quaffing wine. Smooth as you would expect of that region
George - 17/08/2019
Good value for money. BM service excellent as usual.
Russell - 12/01/2019
Four and a half stars, I reckon. Full, soft mouth feel with good depth of fruit flavours, subtle oak and decent length. An enjoyable wine and good value from a consistent maker.
Rein - 28/12/2018
Maybe it needs a bit more age but having drunk a fair bit of this wine through various vintages over the years I found this particular one a bit disappointing - not that it's not very drinkable just that I have high expectations of value for money for Esk Valley
Steve - 24/12/2018
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