2024 Te Mata Coleraine Cabernet Merlot

Please be aware this is a Pre-Release Offer for VIP Customers. Stocks of 2024 Coleraine will be dispatched from Wednesday 25th February.

Coleraine is New Zealand's greatest red wine. It has a track record that no other producer in the country can match, and the 2024 release only solidifies that standing.

This vintage was defined by a warm, dry season which resulted in small bunches and low yields. That translates directly to concentration. The blend is 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot and 11% Cabernet Franc, producing a wine that is powerful but precise.

Gary Walsh compares the depth here to the legendary 2020 vintage, but with the fresh "acid cut" of the 2021. It is a deep, structural wine marked by black fruit, ironstone, graphite and cedar. It is savoury, serious, and built for the long haul.

Due to low yields in 2024, our allocation is down by 40% this year. Sam Kim has already awarded it a perfect 100 points. It is a masterpiece of New Zealand winemaking.

100 points
"This is a masterpiece, much like a great work of art... It’s perfectly proportioned and gracefully powerful, combining scintillating fruit purity with seductive complexity."
- Sam Kim (Wine Orbit)

98 points
"An utterly delicious cabernet blend and a top vintage of this wine."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

98 points
"Superlative balance... So caressing and polished. Bright and vivid at the end."
- James Suckling

97+ points
"An exceptional wine. It will keep, probably, for as long as you want to keep it, if you can keep your hands off it, that is."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)