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Te Mata Awatea Cabernet Merlot 2023
TEMCML23-AW-6-1EA
TEMCML24-AW-6

Te Mata Awatea Cabernet Merlot 2023

Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
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About this Wine

 
country New Zealand
region Hawkes Bay
variety Cabernet & Cabernet Blends
Style Red (Full Bodied)
vintage 2023
closure Cork
Alcohol vol. 13.5
volume 750
Brands Te Mata Estate

Tasting Notes

Aroma

Awatea Cabernets/Merlot ’23 is enticingly perfumed with blackberry, bay, violets, and vanilla.

Maturation

French oak barrels for 15 months

Appearance

With a gleaming crimson core and ruby rim.

Palate

The satisfying palate is detailed, poised and texturally rewarding, interplaying plum, black olive and sandalwood notes with salinity, refreshing acidity and bright tannin length. It has a captivating elegance that is classically Te Mata.

Vinification

The separate parcels of grapes were destemmed before a traditional warm-plunged fermentation and extended maceration on skins. The resulting wines were then run to new and seasoned French oak barrels for 15 months. Throughout this time, they were regularly topped and racked. The separate wines were blended in October 2023, then returned to barrel for their second winter. The finished wine was then egg white fined and bottled in November 2024.

Cellaring Potential

Awatea Cabernets/Merlot ’23 is closed with a Diam cork, allowing continued evolution in bottle for 10 years from harvest.

Winemakers Comments

First made in 1982, awatea continues to represent the best of the classic hawke’s bay cabernet/merlot blend. Awatea takes its name from the historic ship SS Awatea (a Maori word meaning ‘Eye of the Dawn’) that sailed the Auckland – Sydney – Wellington route in the late 1930s. The Awatea was requisitioned as troop transport in WWII and was sunk off Algeria in 1942.
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