Te Mata Estate
Bullnose Hawkes Bay Syrah
Hawkes Bay, North Island, New Zealand
Concentrated pepper and leather, clean, correct and while not exactly one dimensional, lacking in any kind of X factor....2009 vintage.
Concentrated pepper and leather, clean, correct and while not exactly one dimensional, lacking in any kind of X factor....2009 vintage.
Apr 4th, 2015
20160518 WV 22762
Jeannie Cho Lee 90pt
WSh Average Score: 92
Drink 201608
Low alcohol, round tannin, good favor of dark berries. Yummy.
Worth pizza & cheese.
Tasting note: Rich, big, generous Syrah with wonderful ripe blackberry fruit and sweet spices. Well handled tannins on the palate. The wine has an appealing savoury/meaty dimension. This wine was made from four different clones from their older vines. Will age well - keep for at least 3-4 more years before opening. Tasted in: Central Otago, New Zealand. Maturity: Drink. (27-Jan-2011) Jeannie Cho Lee
Produced since 1992, the vines for the Bullnose Syrah are now 20 years old. Purple-black in color, the 2009 Bullnose Syrah gives up a pronounced nose of blueberry compote and blackberry pie filling with hints of cloves, moss covered bark, allspice, toast and aniseed with a whiff of white pepper. Medium bodied and concentrated in the mouth, it gives a good structure of crisp acid and firm, ripe, rounded tannins, finishing long and peppery. Wine Advocate 92-94
20160518 WV 22762
Jeannie Cho Lee 90pt
WSh Average Score: 92
Drink 201608
Low alcohol, round tannin, good favor of dark berries. Yummy.
Worth pizza & cheese.
Tasting note: Rich, big, generous Syrah with wonderful ripe blackberry fruit and sweet spices. Well handled tannins on the palate. The wine has an appealing savoury/meaty dimension. This wine was made from four different clones from their older vines. Will age well - keep for at least 3-4 more years before opening. Tasted in: Central Otago, New Zealand. Maturity: Drink. (27-Jan-2011) Jeannie Cho Lee
Produced since 1992, the vines for the Bullnose Syrah are now 20 years old. Purple-black in color, the 2009 Bullnose Syrah gives up a pronounced nose of blueberry compote and blackberry pie filling with hints of cloves, moss covered bark, allspice, toast and aniseed with a whiff of white pepper. Medium bodied and concentrated in the mouth, it gives a good structure of crisp acid and firm, ripe, rounded tannins, finishing long and peppery. Wine Advocate 92-94
A great Syrah not huge and peppery but more refined with white pepper and allspice
A great Syrah not huge and peppery but more refined with white pepper and allspice
May 25th, 2014