2021 Te Mata Estate Coleraine

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92 points

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  9/25/2023 - Lynda Tate wrote:

  98 point wine

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  9/5/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 89 Points

  During a walkabout tasting, so only brief impressions. More complete than the Awatea, dark fruit and oak spice in the foreground.

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  8/17/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Te Mata (Dan Murphy's, Lane Cove): Blackcurrant, super perfumed top notes, a little mint, floral, plums, sweet spice, polished oak. Juicy, savoury blackcurrant, plum, drying though silky textured tannic grip persists long with the black hued fruits that have the sense of struggling and just about achieving ripeness. Still quite simple but beautifully balanced, elegant. very good.

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  6/3/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Hawkes Bay Tasting (Prince Sydney, 40 Hansard Street): Graphite, pencil shavings, savoury black fruits; currants, plums. Polished oak is integrated and well managed offering a little sweet spice. There is a touch of jubiness to the fruit. Juicy, fleshy, fresh, blackcurrant and plum lies on a okay stave of tannic grip that is both persistent and finally grained. young, balanced, pretty good.

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  6/1/2023 - Shrewsram Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A touch more reticent than Awatea but deeper, with greater density and a greater sense of breadth. No edges but a certain maritime freshness and very ripe, pure cassis fruit. Black cherry notes, some darker plumper fruits and something that makes me think of graphite (but not) framing it all. Poised, focused.
  
  Light side of full-bodied, silky, with a sense of bass, and more harmonious than Awatea. Fine spicing, some toasty new wood, lots of super fine chalky tannins. I get a little numbing spice, there is a lovely freshness, lots of blackberry fruit and a fragrant violet and chalky Cab Franc signature. Long and tense. Should cellar very well.

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