Te Mata Estate Coleraine Cabernet/Merlot 2015 Red Wine 75 cl

Te Mata Estate Winery originated as part of Te Mata Station, a large pastoral land-holding established by English immigrant John Chambers in 1854. John’s third son, Bernard, had the original vision for wine production and planted grape vines on three parcels of hillside land above the homestead. By 1909 it was the largest vineyard in New Zealand winning Gold Medals for its Cabernet in the Imperial London Exhibition of that year. Te Mata Estate still utilises those original three vineyards to produce its most famous wines; Coleraine, Awatea and Elston. Acquired by the Buck and the Morris families, in 1978, and thanks to their direction and development, Te Mata Estate today produces a stunning array of red and white wines over the last thirty years, including famous labels such as Coleraine, Awatea Cabernets/Merlots, Bullnose Syrah, Elston Chardonnay, Cape Crest Sauvignon Blanc and Zara Viognier, which Te Mata introduced to New Zealand in 1994. Three generations of the Buck family live and work at Te Mata Estate, with Nick Buck becoming CEO in 2013. Te Mata is widely known for its Syrah, Viognier, Chardonnay and barrel-fermented Sauvignon Blanc Cape Crest (described as ‘one of the world’s finest’ by Australian wine critic Lester Jesberg). But they are most often regarded as the producer of New Zealand’s finest red. Te Mata’s Coleraine is the only New Zealand wine to win back to back 100 Point scores from WineOrbit.com, with the 2013 Coleraine selling out from the winery in just ten days. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has presented Coleraine as gifts to both Queen Elizabeth II and Chinese Former President Xi Jinping. In 2015 a thirty-year vertical of Coleraine sold at auction for over £4000 - the first time any collection of aged New Zealand wine has been sold in this way.