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This sells for eye watering amounts in offshore markets ( $500 plus per bottle ) and is highly sort after. 94/100from Robert Parkers Wine Advocate."This is one of New Zealands most expensive wines, sold in a dozen overseas markets but rarely seen here. The 2.5 ha vineyard at Matakana is close planted in Merlot ( principally ), Cabernet Franc and Malbec, and the wine is matured for up to two years in all new French oak barriques. It is typically a perfumed and graceful red that impresses not with sheer power, but with its harmony, complexity and silky elegance. If your a Bordeaux fan, you'll love it. M.Cooper. (A must for showing overseas visitors that NZ can produce Bordeaux styled reds!). "Deep garnet in colour, the 2006 Private Reserve Cabernet Franc / Merlot / Malbec offers an expressive nose of warm blackberries, smoked game, black olives and pencil shavings, with hints of cloves and dried Chinese plums. Medium bodied with a good backbone of medium-high acid and medium level, finely grained tannins, it giving layers of savoury and spiced berry preserve flavours, finishing long and harmonious. Delicious now, it should cellar gracefully to 2018 +" 94/100 Parker
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