A powerful wine with blueberry, violet and floral notes finished with a touch of spice.
Stem code: 15TEA3B
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There is some real power here, with vibrant magenta/violet colour, not at all lacking in depth but certainly suggesting youthfulness. This wine has further florals and spice characteristics, with suggestions of cranberry and raspberry.
Open fermentation, 5 day cold soak, allowed to warm up and ferment spontaneously with native vineyard yeasts. Young wine drawn off the skin and aged for 9 months in French oak barrels.
Tee Awah Left Field Hawks Bay Seerah
This wine is made from the Syrah grape which is also known as Shiraz. It has been made in an old world style, meaning it is less obviously fruity and a more elegant style of wine. It is full bodied with plenty of red fruit and very peppery.
Youthful, but with plenty of character this wine shows rich, red fruits on the nose with lovely spicy notes on the palate
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Intense
For people who enjoy big, bold wines that really pack a punch. For many who enjoy similar wines it’s a case of the bigger the better!
Te Awa is a single estate situated in the Gimblet Gravels area of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand’s premium red wine producing area. Hotter than Bordeaux and with similar gravely soils to Graves, it is unsurprising that this region produces fine examples of Bordeaux blends with some exciting Chardonnay and Syrah to boot. If you didn’t think New Zealand could make red wines (that weren’t Pinot Noir) think again!
The full Maori name given to the site is Te Awa o Te Atua, which means 'River of God', a reference to the mysterious subterranean streams over which the vineyards are situated and from which the wines draw a lot of their character.
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