‘The Cloak’ unveils a red wine blend of pure deliciousness.
Craggy Range’s Te Kahu is blended around the structured base of Merlot to give a house style each year that will envelope your mouth, as the mist cloaks vineyard.
Te Kahu is all about concentration. Concentrated colour great you as you gaze into the glass, only to be upstaged by bold fruit flavours in the aromas and the taste. Boysenberry, blackberry and black plums all come flying out at you with subtleties of thyme and cinnamon. The supple tannins deliver the class factor making Te Kahu an intense rich red of great value, best served with juicy steak, or a red roast
Case of 6 ($32.90/bottle)
Te Kahu from Craggy Range sources its grapes from the esteemed Gimblett Gravels of Hawke’s Bay and uses the 5 traditional Bordeaux varieties of Merlot, Cabernet Sauv & Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot to blend its character together. Each vintage the percentage changes at the hands of Steve Smith and Matt Stafford faithful to the house style. Te Kahu means 'the cloak' in Maori named after the mist that envelops Craggy Range’s winery in the Tuki Tuki Valley. Legend has it that the ‘mist cloak’ was used to protect a mythical Maori maiden from the sun as she visited her lover Te Mata. Unlike the secret maiden the cloak doe lift these days to allow the grapes of Te Kahu (the wine) to ripening up, producing and abundance of black fruit flavours and concentrated tannins. Harvested with a good helping of these characteristics this wine is fermented and aged in French oak for 13 months finishing for your enjoyment as a long structured bordeaux-esk red.
Barton & Guestier have been making Bordeaux for a wee while....almost 300 years, so they have a fair idea of how to make a good one - and it shows with Cuvee Rambaud
Named after their first Cellar Master Germain Rambaud who first created this wine (or a version of it) way back in 1755!