Double Trophy & Gold Medal winning Merlot from the 2013 "vintage of the century"
"Soft and velvety tannins provide the backbone for a rich wine that will cellar comfortably for a decade"
From the acclaimed 2013 "vintage of the century"
Mystery Hawke's Bay Merlot 2013 (1)
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Mystery Hawke's Bay Merlot 2013 (1)
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Awarded Trophy
Awarded Trophy
Awarded Gold Medal
Awarded Gold Medal
Awarded Gold Medal
Awarded 5 Stars
Description
Gold, Gold, Trophy, Trophy
Silky textured Merlot from Hawkes Bay’s most revered 2013 vintage. Plush, soft and inviting – you know, melts in the mouth type of stuff! A sumptuous experience, created by a well-respected Hawkes Bay producer - they’ve been around for a while and we reckon they’re pretty darn good at what they do. Take our advice and load up NOW!
This Merlot has ripe and concentrated plum, dark berry and liquorice flavours, with hints of dark chocolate on the finish. Soft and velvety tannins provide the backbone for a rich wine that will cellar comfortably for a decade.
Merlot is sourced from Hawke’s Bay vineyards with a range of soil types including gravels, silt and clay loam. The different characteristics of these sites provide depth and complexity of flavour in the wines.
Crops were thinned down to 1 bunch per shoot to provide ripe and concentrated fruit flavours from a selection of the best blocks in the area. Following harvest, the fruit was de-stemmed and partially crushed into a mixture of closed and open top fermenters. The open fermenters were hand plunged and the closed tanks rummaged to extract colour and tannin from the skins prior to a postferment maceration. The wine then completed malolactic fermentation and was matured in oak barriques for 16 months; 20% new (a blend of 90% French, 10% American). It underwent fining to polish the tannins before bottling.
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Nice full bodied merlot, lovely soft tannins but still lot of backbone and good fruit from a great vintage
Brett - 26/09/2016
Delicious
Gerard - 22/09/2016
I am under instruction to buy more it's so delicious.
David - 18/09/2016
Top class wine at tremendous value. Enjoying the maturity already
Stewart - 16/11/2015
lovely intense Merlot
Ian - 12/10/2016
Good drop but not overly complex and medium bodied wine. Licorice and more licorice, almost Australian.
Lance - 23/09/2016
Beautiful full bodied merlot that's great value for money.
Karen - 20/09/2016
Wonderful value
John - 18/09/2016
A major mouthful!
Ross - 18/09/2016
Excellent Rose looking forward to drinking it in summer
Di - 24/11/2015
Very dense. I can see why people say this will cellar for many years. I agree; it will be great in a few years, but I found it verging on unapproachable now (Nov 2015).
Peter - 23/11/2015
This was value for money, BUT nothing like the glowing description in the write up of the wine.
Chris - 16/11/2015
OK NZ merlot
Mark - 16/11/2015
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