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Matua Valley Cabernet - Merlot 2003

Tasted:27 Mar 2005 (age 2 years)
Name:Matua Valley
Variety:Cabernet - Merlot (2)
Year:2003
Producer:Matua Valley
Region:Hawkes Bay
Rating:ok
Web Site:http://www.matua.co.nz
 
The colour was strong medium ruby red. The bouquet was jammy with berry fruit, and light vanilla oak. The wine had a soft smooth start, ripe berry fruit, and a dry firm tannic finish. This was a fairly simple style, but had quite well balanced fruit and wood.

Rating

Note 1: I am not really a wine expert (just an enthusiastic amateur), so please don't take my recommendations as anything more than a rough guide to these wines. I can take no responsibility if you buy a lot of this particular wine, on my recommendation, and then regret it!

Note 2: You may not fully agree with my evaluation of these wines, as a lot of this is quite subjective. I tend to put a lot of emphasis on complexity and intense characteristic and varietal flavours and bouquet, so if you disagree you might just have different priorities.



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