Askerne Cabernet Franc 2021, Hawke's Bay

Great colour and decent concentration leads to a bouquet and palate of dark berries and olive, some dried herb and black currant, there’s a soft leafy quality then baking spices of barrel and coffee bean….

2021, Cabernet FrancCameron DouglasJuly 16, 2023Askerne, Cabernet Franc, Hawke's Bay, Hawkes Bay

Thomas Legacy Cabernet Franc 2021, Waiheke Island

An excellent bouquet with scents of sweet olive and blackberry, plums and compote, vanilla and new leather….

Tantalus Évoque Reserve 2017, Waiheke Island

I tasted this wine over 3 days to be sure about its continued longevity. This is a wine that will appeal to those who find integrated red blended styles that showcase moments of age and youth concurrently, this wine does that….

Pegasus Bay Cabernet Franc 2020, Waipara Valley, North Canterbury

Complex, muscular and new, aromas of dark berries and olives, some baked plum and myriad dark spices. Core fruit aromas suggesting kalamata and Doris plums, blackberries and five spice….

Smith & Sheth CRU Cabernet Franc 2021, Heretaunga, Hawke's Bay

This is a delicious wine - the aromas of blackberries and olive combined with purity of fruit and layers of barrel spices combine to delivers a complex and engaging bouquet….

Known Unknown Sunburn Carbonic Cabernet Franc 2022, Maraekakaho

A lifted and fresh fruited bouquet suggesting plums and red currants, a fine light herb layer and gentle bubble-gum quality (that’s the…..

2022, Cabernet FrancCameron DouglasMay 22, 2023Known Unknown, Sunburn, Carbonic, Cabernet fran, Maraekakaho

Known Unknown Blank Frank Cabernet Franc & Pinot Blanc 2022, Hawke's Bay

Aromas and flavours of red apple skin and white fleshed tree fruits, there’s a natural lees and baking spices quality with a r…

Destiny Bay 'Magna Praemia' 2020, Waiheke Island, Auckland

Opaque core with dark purple hues and bright pink rim. The bouquet is incredible, concentrated and focused, led by aromas of dark plums and blackberries, smoky chocolate and sweet toasty wood, violets and olive, sweet tobacco and iron….

Destiny Bay 'Mystae' 2020, Waiheke Island, Auckland

There’s no mistaking the power of fruit and new wood, spices and earth echoes in the bouquet. Dark plums and blackberry fruits, sweet black olives and dark chocolate….

Destiny Bay 'Destinae' 2020, Waiheke Island, Auckland

Complex, concentrated and very youthful. Aromas of black cherry and milk chocolate, black currant and dark fleshed berries, a fine tobacco and graphite quality and a mix of new and seasoned wood suggestions….

Black Estate Home Cabernet Franc 2021, North Canterbury

Fantastic bouquet, varietal and primary with dark berries and olive paste, black berry and plum flesh, a core mineral earth quality and baking spices of toasty barrel….

2021, Cabernet Franc, OrganicCameron DouglasApril 10, 2023Black Estate, Home, Cabernet Franc, Organic, North Canterbury

The Boneline Iridium 2019, Waipara, North Canterbury

Complex, youthful and very inviting bouquet with aromas of black berry fruits and olive, dark plum and chocolate, toasty baking spices from barrel and a core stony rocky earth qualities….

Delta Estate Hatters Hill Gimblett Gravels Cabernet Franc 2021, Hawke's Bay

Distinctive, concentrated, varietal, fruity and nicely complex bouquet of dark berries, black olive, tobacco and violets….

SOHO Revolver Merlot Malbec Cabernet Franc 2021, Waiheke Island

Fantastic bouquet loaded (pun intended) with chocolate, aromas of darks berry fruits and baking spices, baked nut, apple and blackberry pie crust, fresh blackberries and roasted plums….

2021, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Merlot, Malbec, Merlot blendCameron DouglasFebruary 24, 2023SOHO, Revolver, merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Waiheke Island

Paritua Stone Paddock 'Scarlet' 2019, Hawkes Bay

Youthful, dark fruited bouquet with scents of fresh Doris plums and chocolate, olive and tobacco, blackberries and marmite….

2019, Red Wine, Red blend, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, MerlotCameron DouglasFebruary 22, 2023Paritua, Stone Paddock, 2019, Scarlet, Hawkes Bay

Esk Valley 'Heipipi' The Terraces 2019, Hawkes Bay

Fabulous colour, purity and intensity, there’s a lot of energy in the bouquet of this wine with dark spices and black berry fruits, sweet black olive and dark chocolate, the toasty barrel qualities bring forward scents of sweet vanilla pod and fresh cloves, there’s violets and plums and a light brambly quality….