Te Mata Estate Coleraine Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Cabernet Franc, Hawkes Bay

New Zealand's first genuinely great red wine. Coleraine has been produced since 1982 from the exceptional gravels of the Havelock North hillside, establishing a benchmark for Bordeaux-style blending in New Zealand that has not been surpassed. In great vintages — and there are many — it achieves a complexity and ageability that place it among the Southern Hemisphere's finest reds. Te Mata is New Zealand's oldest winery; Coleraine is its most important wine. The two facts are not unrelated.