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Champion Red Wine
, Liquorland Top 100 2007
Trophy & Gold Medal, Best Shiraz/Syrah, Liquorland Top 100 2007
Blue Gold, Sydney International Wine Competition 2008
93/100 (Outstanding), Neal Martin for RobertParker.com, May 2008
5 Stars, Michael Cooper, Winestate magazine, May/June '08
5 Stars, Yvonne-Marie Lorkin, Hawkes Bay Today, 10th November 2007
4 Stars, Cuisine NZ Syrah Tasting, July 2008
"John Hancock's Syrahs are brought up in a loving environment and it shows. This is a confident wine, rich in spicy fragrance and assertive mouthfeel, altogether very lovable".
Cuisine NZ Syrah Tasting, July 2008
"The perfect introduction to Hawke's Bay's exciting new syrahs. Very fragrant, open and expressive in its youth, with deep colour and highly concentrated plum and black pepper flavours, slightly earthy and savoury, deliciously warm and complex."
Michael Cooper, Winestate magazine, May/June 2008
"The magnificent Gimblett Gravels Syrah shone out amongst its peers. It displays a more open-knit, well-defined, leathery nose with a vibrant white pepper component. The palate is medium-to-full-bodied with firm but fine tannins, very harmonious and focused with blackberry, white pepper, plum and leather. Very good persistency towards the finish with a beguiling sense of natural elegance.
Trinity Hill is one of Hawkes Bay's outstanding producers and one of the country's finest proponents of Syrah. With two 20-hectare holdings in the Gimblett Gravels, chief winemaker and "bluesman" John Hancock along with Warren Gibson and Michael Bell are fashioning dense, powerful yet supremely well-balanced wines that rank amongst the best wines New Zealand produces and come highly recommended." 93/100 (Outstanding).
Neal Martin for RobertParker.com, May 2008.
"Wow! Intensely fruity with concentrated pepper and bitter chocolate aromas wafting forth from the glass. When it's poured it has a warm, savoury, slightly-truffleish flavour with hefty, buxom tannins. It's like choco-pepper plum pudding in a glass, it's drinling well now and it will seriously reward in the future."
Yvonne-Marie Lorkin, Hawkes Bay Today, 10 November, 2007.
"Gaining Champion status and earning a Gold Medal in a competition such as the Top 100 really speaks volumes of the Trinity Hill pedigree", says brand manager Paul Wilcox. "It's great to see the Gimblett Gravels Syrah being acknowledged by a panel of distinguished judges with such experienced palates."
The Gimblett Gravels region claims New Zealand's premium red wine area - the Trinity Hill Syrah grown in this area is a powerful multi-layered wine, rich with round tannins giving the wine great structure. The flavour combines blackberry, black pepper, savoury and spice.
The Liquorland Top 100 is an annual event and is one of New Zealand's leading wine competitions. Wines from around the world are judged by an international panel of respected judges, lead by wine veteran Mike de Garis. Judging criteria is based on aroma, colour, clarity and of course, taste.
True Wine News Service, 29 October 2007.
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