Te Mata Estate Awatea Merlot Cabernet 2018/19/21 Macon Dry with medium acidity

Dry with medium acidity

Smoky-sweet and powerful

Delicate in structure

white chocolate and buttery fudge

Te Mata Estate Awatea Merlot Cabernet 2018/19/21 Macon Dry with medium acidityFirst made in 1982, Awatea continues to represent the best of the classic Hawke's Bay Cabernet Merlot blend. Awatea takes its name from the historic ship SS Awatea (a Maori word meaning Eye of the Dawn) that sailed the Auckland Sydney Wellington route in the late 1930s. The Awatea was requisitioned as a troop transport in WWII and was sunk off Algeria in 1942. A deep brilliant crimson with an underlying amethyst hue, Awatea 21 immediately offers up