“The best of these wines offer the complexity developed over life-spans of a decade or more & the plush tannins for near-immediate gratification.” Joe Czerwinski, Wine Enthusiast, USA

A superb food wine, these blends are notable for their purity of fruit expression. Approachable when young, complex, leathery & gamey with age. Hawke’s Bay wines (approximately 75%), are known for being rich & well structured, showing characters of plum, blackcurrant & chocolate, with an elegant firmness. The warmer Northland & Auckland regions produce fine, elegant wines, often lighter in colour & weight.