Te Awa Cabernet Merlot 2009

Te Awa Cabernet Merlot 2009"These are head turning wines of exceptional balance and class." Andrew Caillard MW A delicious wine from the famous Gimblett Gravels of Hawke's Bay. Displays great depth, intensity and finesse. Beautifully balanced, with real energy. A long termer. Immensely appealing and great value. "Concentrated ripe blackberry and blackcurrant aromas, cedary oak in balance. Intense flavour, very elegant and finely textured, with fine ripe powdery tannins, and

The 1991 Shiraz was named Majella

The basalt based underlying volcanic soil and rock produce a characteristically fine yet extended

"It’s as if Vase Felix has been working towards this release over years

mouthfilling and rich

the first five minutes or so is for letting the wine get past the pent-up oak aromas

semillon 9% and sauvignon gris 6%

Savoury edge – minerally and exciting

it's a lean and finely integrated with lively flavours of small red and black berries and dusty herbal undertones comfortably knit with cedary oak and fine

Dosed with seven grams per liter

This would be excellent with appetisers

"Full red colour with a good purple tinge

Winemaking in the family dates back to 1490 but it was only as recently as 2006