Community Tasting Note

• Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 91 points

  May 16, 2020 - NB: am writing up this 2015 wine from a dinner in 2018, the wine at that time being 3 yrs old.
  
  Looking at the back label, this appears to be a UK supermarket Marks and Spencer label wine made under exclusive contract to M&S by Rod McDonald in New Zealand.
  
  Decanted half hour
  
  Label says fruit is from the ''old riverbed'' vineyards, Hawke's Bay.
  
  C....youthful light to med body
  
  N....big! lots of fruit, red/black, some wood, baccy, some tar, some intensity
  
  T....very much made in a Dry style; med body; long sustained flavours; warm alc; gentle agreeable tannins; not mature (at 3 yrs old) but is settled and drinking very well.
  
  VFM?....feels £16 a fair price. Will buy again in gd years.

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