Paritua 21·12 2019

Reviews

Cameron Douglas MS: 97/100 & Top Wine Tasted 2022.  The colour is intense and dark, opaque with dark purple hues and a purple ruby rim. Aromas of concentration and intensity with blackberries and roasted plums, tobacco and cigar scents with a toasty barrel and baking spices complexity. Full-bodied and complex, intense, fruity, toasty and young. Flavours mirror the bouquet and drive the palate core; oak, firm tannins and medium+acidity layer in foundation textures and added mouthfeel. A delicious wine, a classic wine, lengthy, rich, complex and very new-world Hawkes Bay. Excting. Best drinking from 2025 or older through 2040.

Bob Campbell, MW (The Real Review): 97/100. Dense and powerful with a great texture.Quite a plush wine with dark berries, chocolate/mocha, ferrous, spice and nutty oak. Long and layered with a core of sweet fruit. Very impressive.

Sam Kim, Wine Orbit: 9x/100. Seductively complex and enticing, the wine shows dark fruit richness, smoked game, vanillin oak, dried herb and potpourri aromas, leading to a powerfully concentrated palate delivering outstanding weight and depth. Wonderfully complemented by plush texture and layers of grainy tannins, finishing impressively long and velvety. At its best: now to 2037.

Tasting Note

A complex aroma of cassis, black currant, and black Doris plum, fresh tobacco, cocoa powder hints of oyster shell, floral violet, cardamom, and clove and an intriguing sous bois and sanguine note. The palate has great structure and layers of complexity of flavour. A silky textured attack with a plush concentrated cassis and blackberry palate, with ripe Black Doris plum cocoa powder and spice flavours on the mid palate, a hint of mineral elegance expressed as oyster shell with a long flavored fine grained tannin finish.

Aromas and flavours

Additional information

Type: Red wine

Varials: 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot 20%, 20% Cabernet Franc.

Suggested food match: Enjoy with red meats, hearty roasted game, and rich mushroom dishes.

Vineyard: The very best sub blocks on the Paritua Vineyard at 2112 Maraekakaho Road have been selected to grow extremely low yielding vines. Management and care for this flagship wine starts with pruning. The vines are manicured from then onwards, with crop thinning to one bunch per cane and a manual leaf-pluck pre veraison. The canopy is kept open to provide for airflow and sun exposure. At optimum ripeness we hand harvest selected rows.

Winemaking: Whole bunches are de-stemmed and the berries are then sorted using our optical grape sorter, then crushed to a closed fermenter. After a period of cold soak we inoculate with preferred yeast. Temperatures are then managed to reach about 30°C. Once the ferment is dry the wine is tasted to evaluate maceration time, and finally basket pressed to barrel. Barrels are stored in temperature controlled rooms. Paritua aim for about 50% new French oak barriques. Elevage in barrel can take up to 24 months or more. Final barrel selection and blending takes place about 8 weeks before bottling. The wine is bottled after filtration.

Alcohol: 14% vol

Residual sugar:  <1 g/l

Bottle size: 0.75l

Notice: contains sulphites

Cellaring potential: 2039+

Closure: cork

Produced and bottled by: Paritua Vineyards, 2112 Maraekakaho Road, Rd 1, Hastings, New Zealand.

Distributor: vinabonus GmbH, Simmedenweg 40, 34134 Kassel, Germany