Te Mata Estate Vineyards

Hawkes Bay Bullnose Syrah

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  Vintage 2019
  95 points The Real Review

From a hot vintage with a low rainfall. Ripe plum and berry flavours, with less floral influence than usual. A ripe, firmly-structured, peppery wine with a seasoning of nutty oak. Accessible now but needs time to show its best.
The Real Review, 3 February, 2021

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  Vintage 2019
  95 points The Wine Front

Pretty, floral, red and black fruit, a sneaky grid of pepper, dried roses and violet. Medium-bodied, concentrated, a little liquorice and spice, nutty, dense and clenched, very graphite and ‘mineral’ character, beef stock and meaty flavours too, and a long finish packed with silty tannin, coffee bean and violet. Beautiful Syrah here. All just so.
The Wine Front, 7 December, 2021