Samples from Bill #4: Blackcurrant, some herbs, pencil shavings and spice. Palate is sweet and bright with plenty of red fruit, though it's settling nicely with good depth and length. Really like the potential here.
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deep dark red/purple, clean and bright. surprisingly smooth and modest, tough it's just a baby. dense dark fruits, some oak, mild spices and tobacco, with a concentrated sweet core, firm but supple tannins, solid acidity, m+/full body, round and fine structure. savoury finish, which is long but quite plain, too young to judge fairly, though it performs very good already, it can be in cellar at least 20 years confidently.
a super classic NZ red blend, very good on complexity, density and finesse. could be the best vintage of Coleraine, BC 98, CD 97, SK 100
Ap 5/5, Ar 13/15, Palate 17/20, Overall 5+5/10 Total 95+/100
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Didn't have a chance to taste this in its year of release so this was already cellared for a year.
A beautiful burgundy colour, polished sheen, still obviously youthful. Vanilla and aniseed are the dominant notes, but overall a muted nose. Hopefully it develops with age.
The palette on the other hand was surprisingly smooth and mellow for such a young wine. Beautiful red berry flavours, a hint of mushroom, chocolate, blackberry, boysenberry. Some nice tanning structure to give it some body. Looking forward to seeing this develop.
Tasted at the same time as a 2015 and 2020 and this held up against the 2015 quite well given its youth. Lots of promise. Acknowledging it's had the benefit of an extra year in bottle, it also shows a lot more potential than the 2020 at this stage.
So this is the 2019 Te Mata Coleraine gushed over by the local critics with scores between 97 and 100 points. We tried a bottle on Release which I wasn’t overly impressed with so a year on we took the first of a case of six out to dinner. Again not overly impressed. The nose was muted, palate mid weight, no obvious tannin structure and a slight acidic finish. Perhaps it’s in a dumb phase. Not sure where it goes from here but I wouldn’t have the confidence to predict it will ever exceed 95 points. Will check in on its progress in another four or five years.
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Magnificent 6 Ride Again: Pencil shavings, redcurrant, blackcurrant, violets and spice. Bright red fruit on the palate, there is plenty of flavour here but it has depth and length to it as well. Young but showing potential.
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Deep, intense and compact. Concentrated cassis and boysenberry fruits. Some tobacco and cedar. There's crisp acidity and ample structure holding everything in pace. It has some black olive saltiness. Balance is really good and it needs plenty of cellar time.
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5/27/2023 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Samples from Bill #4: Blackcurrant, some herbs, pencil shavings and spice. Palate is sweet and bright with plenty of red fruit, though it's settling nicely with good depth and length. Really like the potential here.
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2/23/2023 - evanqian wrote: 95 Points
Prof Lei - Best Collection of New Zealand (Newmarket, Auckland): 59% CS, 37% Me and 4% CF.
deep dark red/purple, clean and bright. surprisingly smooth and modest, tough it's just a baby. dense dark fruits, some oak, mild spices and tobacco, with a concentrated sweet core, firm but supple tannins, solid acidity, m+/full body, round and fine structure. savoury finish, which is long but quite plain, too young to judge fairly, though it performs very good already, it can be in cellar at least 20 years confidently.
a super classic NZ red blend, very good on complexity, density and finesse. could be the best vintage of Coleraine, BC 98, CD 97, SK 100
Ap 5/5, Ar 13/15, Palate 17/20, Overall 5+5/10
Total 95+/100
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11/4/2022 - Muz wines Likes this wine: 98 Points
Very smooth, incredible depth of flavour that rightly lays claim to being New Zealand’s most fsmous red wine.
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6/4/2022 - jsperl Likes this wine: 90 Points
Didn't have a chance to taste this in its year of release so this was already cellared for a year.
A beautiful burgundy colour, polished sheen, still obviously youthful. Vanilla and aniseed are the dominant notes, but overall a muted nose. Hopefully it develops with age.
The palette on the other hand was surprisingly smooth and mellow for such a young wine. Beautiful red berry flavours, a hint of mushroom, chocolate, blackberry, boysenberry. Some nice tanning structure to give it some body. Looking forward to seeing this develop.
Tasted at the same time as a 2015 and 2020 and this held up against the 2015 quite well given its youth. Lots of promise. Acknowledging it's had the benefit of an extra year in bottle, it also shows a lot more potential than the 2020 at this stage.
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3/22/2022 - Cromulent Likes this wine: 91 Points
So this is the 2019 Te Mata Coleraine gushed over by the local critics with scores between 97 and 100 points. We tried a bottle on Release which I wasn’t overly impressed with so a year on we took the first of a case of six out to dinner. Again not overly impressed. The nose was muted, palate mid weight, no obvious tannin structure and a slight acidic finish. Perhaps it’s in a dumb phase. Not sure where it goes from here but I wouldn’t have the confidence to predict it will ever exceed 95 points. Will check in on its progress in another four or five years.
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4/24/2021 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Magnificent 6 Ride Again: Pencil shavings, redcurrant, blackcurrant, violets and spice. Bright red fruit on the palate, there is plenty of flavour here but it has depth and length to it as well. Young but showing potential.
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4/2/2021 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Deep, intense and compact. Concentrated cassis and boysenberry fruits. Some tobacco and cedar. There's crisp acidity and ample structure holding everything in pace. It has some black olive saltiness. Balance is really good and it needs plenty of cellar time.
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