Elegant with fine & supple tannins
An attractive wine showcasing classic white pepper, thyme & violet aromas
Enjoy with beef wellington or scotch fillet with creamy, rosemary mash & honey-glazed roast carrots
Te Awanga Estate Hawke's Bay Syrah 2018
Te Awanga Estate Hawke's Bay Syrah 2018
Accolades
Awarded 93/100 Points & 5 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Aug 2019
Description
"Exhibiting elegance, purity and sophistication, the wine shows dark plum, spiced cherry, violet, olive and toasted nut characters on the nose. The palate is silky, flowing and rounded with youthful fruit intensity with seductive savoury undertones, finishing impressively long and polished. Excellent line and length. At its best: 2020 to 2026" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Aug 2019
Classic white pepper, thyme and violet aromas lead into a palate that is elegant and pure. Plum and blueberry flavours give way to an attractive savoury character. The tannins are fine and supple in this attractive wine.
Premium grapes were first grown in Te Awanga at the beginning of last century. The warm coastal climate, gentle sea breezes and the shallow clay soils combine to produce award winning wines of great varietal flavour and finesse. Autumn 2018 was a little unsettled but came at the end of an advanced growing season. Fruit for this wine came from a vineyard situated inland west of Hastings on an old riverbed. Naturally higher than normal acidity was characteristic of Syrah grapes this year producing a real definition in aromatics.
A combination of machine and handpicked fruit was destemmed but not crushed into open and closed fermenters. The wine was plunged and pumped over up to three times a day at the height of ferment. Post ferment it was rested for up to two weeks on skins to advance and condense the tannin structure making the wine more approachable and supple. The wine was pressed and run to tank and new and used French oak barriques, where it was matured for 12 months in before it was blended and was bottled unfined in 2019.
Contains Sulphites.
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