Te Mata Estate Awatea Merlot Cabernet 2023 Sauvignon Semillon and black currants

and black currants

This aging time allowed the wine to integrate and build concentration and depth of flavours before undergoing blending and bottling

Hawke’s Bay Lemon

Harvest: End of September

Pinot Noir holds a special place in the hearts of the Cowley family

Te Mata Estate Awatea Merlot Cabernet 2023 Sauvignon Semillon and black currantsFirst 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 a troop transport in WWII and was sunk off Algeria in 1942. With a gleaming crimson core and ruby rim, Awatea Cabernets Merlot 23 is enticingly perfumed