Collaboration Impression Red 2023
$37.90 inc. GST
Accolades:
93/100 – Cameron Douglas MS (2022 vintage)
92/100 – Bob Campbell MW (2022 vintage)
Tasting Note: 33% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon & 33% Cabernet Franc, Bridge Pa & Gravels. Dark black fruits, cassis and plum. Layered with elegant florals and brambley forest floor notes. Soft, smooth & sleek on the entry with a juicy, rich, mid core of black fruits and a long, savoury, moreish finish.
Winemaking Notes: Hand picked in batches by varietal and destemmed with 100% whole berries. Cold soaked for 4-5 days and fermented in small open top fermenters. 16 months in old French oak barrels. Individual Barrel selection to taste. Unfined and unfiltered. 2023 was a challenging vintage for Hawke’s Bay. Intensive viticulture work was imperative throughout the growing season. High rainfall, humidity, reduced sunshine hours and Cyclone Gabrielle hitting the region early February was the icing on the cake. A silver lining was the harvest was weeks behind a normal growing season which mean’t very slow ripening and high acids so grape maturity levels were behind when the cyclone hit. As the season unfolded and settled into autumn it was a very late pick for a lot of the varieties, in some respects a saving grace.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Variety: Merlot blend
Region: Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
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