Church Road TOM Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2020, Hawkes Bay

There’s no mistaking the complexity and completeness in the bouquet with purple flower and dark berry fruits, fresh and roasted Doris plums, blackberry then earth. Other aromas from baking spice to cacao from French oak add complexity and power. Taut, bold, firm, rich in flavours, textured and dry all touch the palate at once. Core fruits flavours of purple skinned fruits return, tannins are very firm, polished and in abundance needing cellar time to settle and integrate. Acidity keeps the wine lively and fresh, is also in abundance and will hold this wine in place for many years. Lengthy, complex and well made, a wine of provenance. Cellar please with best drinking likely from 2030 through 2050.

97 Points

Outstanding

RRP from $220.00

Opaque dark purple core colour with a purple and red rim, some colour staining of the tears.

If you decide to drink this wine before 2030 I suggest you double decant it.