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Gold Medal, Royal Easter Wine Show, 2005
5 Stars, Winestate magazine, Hawke’s Bay Regional Tastings 2005 and 2006
5 Stars, Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide to New Zealand Wines 2006
5 Stars, 95/100, Top placing, Gourmet Traveller Wine, Top 12 NZ Bordeaux-style Reds Tasting, June/July 2006
Silver Medal, Hawke’s Bay A&P – Mercedes-Benz Wine Awards, 2004.
Silver Medal, Air New Zealand Wine Awards, 2004.
”A big, almost luscious blend of merlot and cabernet sauvignon. Masses of fruit with an array of dark berry, licorice and some spice flavours, in addition to a solid oak influence. The structure is softer and richer than is typical from the Gimblett Gravels district. Long, complex and very approachable red with a great future.” 5 Stars, 95/100. Top rating.
Bob Campbell MW inGourmet Traveller Wine, Top 12 New Zealand Bordeaux-style Reds Tasting, June/July 2006
“Very dark with rich blueberry and oak aromas that give an inky, fleshy, almost meaty impression. Impact is suave and full of deep, blue/black fruit lined with oak, succulent if not quite supple, but very appealing. In mid-palate there is a strong sense of the wine’s toughness, founded on depth, intensity and uncompromising dry tannins. Big, heroic wine, muscular and lavish in its fruit richness, but for all its strength it has plenty of poise to promise a terrific future if you can bear to wait.” Rated 9/10.
Grill magazine, March 2006.
“The smooth tannins in this wine got me going before I knew this was a
blend of merlot, cabernet sauvignon and syrah. Although the mix of these varietals may change to see malbec and petit verdot enter the wine in the future, these three hang together as if made for each other. This is a good contender for a five-year cellaring but tastes and feels good right now.”
Joelle Thomson, NZ Herald, 26th January 2005.
“The Homage The Gimblett was outstandingļ¾
.My notes from the tasting read: ‘savoury nose with touches of black pepper, cassis, licorice, cedar. Lovely silky fruit palate, intense and concentrated with ripe tannins coming through on the finish. Long and lingering. Fantastic.’ ”
Jane Skilton MW, The Independent, 26th January 2005.
“A lovely, floral, complex mix of merlot, cabinet sauvignon and syrah that spent 26 months in oak and is surprisingly approachable at this stage of what should be a long life.”
Warren Barton, The Dominion-Post, December 11th, 2004. |
