Elephant Hill Hieronymus 2020, Hawke's Bay

An exceptional wine with a powerful, ripe and complex bouquet. Scents of black and blue fruits, dark spices of barrel and aromas of blackberry and black currants, dark chocolate and freshly roasted coffee beans, violets and baked earth, fresh boysenberries, plums and kalamata olives. Powerful, complex and dry on the palate, salivating taut, lush and detailed. A wine of concentration and intensity from the core of dark berry fruit flavours, firm ripe and polished tannins delivering long chain mouthfeel compressed by a backbone of acidity. A wine that keeps repeating flavours and textures with an exceptionally lengthy finish. Best drinking from 2028 through 2050.

98 Points

Outstanding

RRP form $125.00

100% Stone vineyard (Gimblett Gravels), 39% Cabernet Sauvignon clone 10, 38% Merlot clone 181, 23% Cabernet Franc clone 326. Handpicked, 24 months in barrel (54% new) plus 4 months in tank, all on light lees. Only 251 cases released. Be quick!