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Michael Cooper lists this wine as a "Potential Classic" alongside Trinity Hommage and Bilancia La Collina! ( both $80 plus ) and a 5 star rating for tastings of this wine over several vintages ( no review from M.Cooper for this vintage in his latest guide ) He writes as a general intro to this wine. "This Waiheke Island red is consistently rewarding.Purely estate grown and fully matured in American ( mostly ) and French oak barriques." The wine is selected from the rpest berries, grown at Passage Rock and Oneroa Bay Vineyards Waiheke Island
Aromas of ripe blackberry, plum and spice supported by tasty vanillin oak. Full bodied with beautifully balanced tannins."A brilliant consistent performer from Waiheke.
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Pure Gold at the Ai NZ Show 2011 as well. In addition it has won Pure Elite Gold at the Air New Zealand Wine Awards 2010 , Pure Gold – Bragato Wine Awards 2011,
Gold – Hawkes Bay A&P Wine Awards 2011,
5 stars & Top 10 – Cuisine Magazine May 2011,
95 points – Gourmet Traveller Magazine by Bob Campbell who writes "Strong peach and grapefruit flavours with a subtle seasoning of spicy oak and mealy yeast autolysis character. This is a serious Chardonnay with impressive weight, length and a rich texture.'
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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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98/100 from Anthony Blue which is the highest score every achieved for a NZ Red. Also 93/100 from Parkers Wine Advocate and 93/100 from Bob Campbell and 5 stars M.Cooper. Top United States wine critic and Editor-In-Chief of The Tasting Panel magazine, Anthony Dias Blue, awarded Destiny Bay his highest rating ever for a New Zealand red wine. In the June 2011 edition of the influential magazine for the wine and spirits industry, Blue lauded the 2007 Magna Praemia with a rating of 98 out of 100
In his review, Blue states that this wine is, “velvety, luscious and ripe with concentration and intense fruit … stunning and super long.” The wine is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Malbec, and 2% Petit Verdot. He also rated the 2007 Destinae with a 90 and the 2007 Mystae with a 93. Blue says that “After visiting Waiheke several years ago, I became convinced that this small spot is producing some of New Zealand’s – and the world’s – best reds.”
Parkers Wine Advocate writes "The Magna Praemia 2007 has a very refined, very Right Bank bouquet with blackberry, tobacco leaf, scorched earth and wild-hedgerow. Understated but growing in intensity in the glass. The palate is full-bodied with fine tannins, very powerful and yet controlled. Harmonious towards the finish. Very polished but beautifully poised, this is a wonderful Waiheke wine. Drink 2011-2018." 93/100. ( Packaged in a beautiful 3 pack if you wanted to order 3 btls- total for a 3 pack $732.00 )
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