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• Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 28, 2020 - Bought Exel Wines, Perth UK, approx £23.00 July 2020
  
  Feels like it will cellar into a 93-94/100 wine.
  
  No Cab' Franc at all in the 2016 blend. Blend is 3 grapes only: Cab' Sav', Merlot, Malbec, all from Gimblett Gravels triangle sites, Hawke's Bay, NZ.
  
  Rich red wine with furry tannins, long flavours of dark chocolate, a hint of coffee/mocha, dark black fruits rather than red, a tad smokey, ends almost Dry. Good length. Classy. Drinking very well now at 4 yrs old - as a Foodie style - but is nothing near mature. Maybe at 8 yrs it won't be screaming, "Food, please!."?
  
  VFM?....Feels £30+, cost approx £23. Good value. I wonder if a £23 claret would be this good? Doubt it.

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