“The wine world is sitting up and taking notice of the red wines from the Hawke’s Bay area, and this youthful Merlot shows why. It is bright crimson and has raspberry and pine bark scents. Sweet, ripe mulberry flavour shows on the front of the palate and peppermint chocolate and glace cherry fruit characters integrate with spicy oak on the middle palate. Persistent berry fruit and smooth flinty tannins combine at the finish.”