Decibel Giunta Hawkes Bay Malbec 2025

Description

Cherry, Chocolate, Spice

An exploration into the fruitiness of the malbec grape, it’s all cherries all the way. Deliciously bright and unabashedly fruit-forward with soft resolved tannins like biting into a fruit-filled chocolate. A perfect anywhere anytime red that makes friends wherever it goes. Drink it, don’t overthink it.

Hawke’s Bay lies on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The region enjoys dry summers with moderate, cool nights. This wine reflects a Malbec grown in Bridge Pa on the Heretaunga Plains. The soils are silty-loam and free-draining red metal of mixed alluvial and volcanic origin. The wines tend to reflect more lush fruit and rounder tannins. After a relatively cool spring during flowering, there was reduced yield of fruit on the vine resulting in more concentrated wines. We utilse two clones of Malbec (595 & 1056) grown on 3 different blocks around the Bridge Pa Triangle.

The fruit was cold macerated for 6 days on skins before a wild fermentation and once dry, it was macerated on skins for an additional 15 days during which time malolactic fermentation was completed.