Description

The Villa Maria Cellar Selection range seems to outdo itself every year for value, just when you think you’ve tasted the best one yet, they go and release another impressive wine, like the 2018. Champion Syrah, Best Hawke’s Bay Red and Winner of the New Zealand Wine of the Year, and at a price everyone can afford. So a heads up on the recently released 2019 Syrah, from a spectacular vintage and yet to be put before the judges. Take it from us, it could even be better than the 2019. Don’t miss out, buy a case, you will never regret a single bottle.

Smells

A haunting and exotic bouquet showing cracked pepper, blackberry, liquorice, plums, wildflowers, leather, chocolate and espresso.

Tastes

Juicy, fleshy and full-flavoured, this release is incredibly concentrated and very refined; beautifully fruited but light on its feet in the best cool-climate tradition. A wine of great presence and gravitas with an incongruously affordable price tag, this wine has a smoky, meaty finish to it that cries out for some lamb and rosemary or some wild venison. Great young, this will cellar well through 2028+

Wine Range