2020 Te Mata, Coleraine, 6x750ml

2020 Te Mata, Coleraine, 6x750ml

2020 was Te Mata's driest fruit-growing season on record. This produced pristine fruit with intense levels of concentration.

ETA November 2022

Availability: En Primeur

Case size: 6 / Bottle size: 750ml

Duty Status
From £300.00

Critics Score: 98+

Publication: Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

Unbelievably good. Young, but the potential is overwhelmingly potent. Floral, nutty, intense small-berried fruit, cedar, anise and sweet herb. Tight, medium-bodied, so concentrated, but light too, ultra-mineral, fresh, all the gravel and tense cabernet feel, but with perfume unlocked: so flagrant and fragrant. The length is superb. I’m taken aback by the beauty and essence-like nature of this wine. My precious. Easily one of the best wines I’ve tasted in the last decade.
TE MATA ESTATE

FINE WINE IN PROGRESS
Te Mata is New Zealand’s oldest wine estate, with every step of winemaking undertaken on site – from
vine to glass – in the foothills of Te Mata Peak. Cabernet, chardonnay and pinot noir were first planted
on these hills in 1892 and the first wines released in 1896. Within a decade they were winning gold medals
across the globe. While the estate has grown, we still hand harvest from the same vineyards, and age
wines in the original barrel halls – the oldest in New Zealand. 126 years after our first vintage, Te Mata
Estate wines are available internationally in over 45 countries and recognised among the world’s elite.
They regularly sell out from the winery within days of release and are presented at the world’s top tables,
including to President Barrack Obama, President Xi Jinping and Queen Elizabeth II. Te Mata Estate
remains independent, family-owned, and as committed to the future of fine wine in New Zealand as at
our first vintage over a century ago.

A UNIQUE NATURAL HERITAGE
Our name, Te Mata, gifted by the Ngati Kahungunu iwi, reflects our connection to Hawke’s Bay, the giant
Te Mata O Rongokako, and the heart of Te Mata’s estate production – the Havelock Hills vineyards, the
first legally-protected vineyard site in New Zealand. All our wines are exclusively grown in Hawke’s Bay.
Vineyards across the Havelock Hills, Bridge Pa, the Gimblett Gravels and Woodthorpe Terraces in the
Dartmoor Valley, developed by small-batch fermentation, blending and bottling on site, allow us to take
full advantage of Hawke’s Bay’s fine wine potential and exceptional natural heritage. Similar to Bordeaux
or Northern California, the dry, maritime climate has low annual rainfall, low humidity and ample ultraviolet light. Soils are young and derived from the gravels, sandstone and silt left behind as the three main
rivers of Hawke’s Bay changed course over thousands of years, leaving a diversity of slopes, terraces and
aspects ideal for fine wine production.

TE MATA O RONGOKAKO
The giant Rongokako was asked to prove his love for the beautiful Hinerakau with an impossible task
– eating a pathway for her tribe through the hills to the sea. Almost finished, he died beside his final
bite. His profile can be seen in the high peaks of the range – Te Mata O Rongokako, the silhouette of
Rongokako – a ridgeline known locally as ‘The Sleeping Giant’. Gifted the name by Ngati Kahungunu
iwi, our vineyards were planted here in the 1890s. Today these hills are a winemaking heritage-site, the
first winery and vines in New Zealand to be protected by law. Morning mists form the white-feather cloak
the proud Hinerakau lays across the giant among us – Te Mata O Rongokako – the giant who died for
his people, and for love.