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Oyster Bay Merlot 750ml
$53.69 $50.39 price per bottle
The philosophy of Oyster Bay is to produce fine, distinctively regional wines that are elegant and assertive with glorious fruit flavors. Oyster Bay Hawke’s Bay Merlot features elegance and intensity of fruit - the hero is always the freshness of ripe fruit, with spice and soft tannins on the palate. Juicy , fresh black plum with a hint of vanilla, bright red currants, and alluring spice. Technical notes The fruit is destemmed, crushed and transferred into stainless steel fermentation tanks. The must is inoculated with pure yeast cultures to enhance varietal aromatics and fruit characters. Tailored rackings and pump overs are performed during fermentation to obtain delicate fruit tannins and maximise flavour and colour extraction. Following gentle pressing, the wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in tank and in French oak barriques. A large portion of the blend is then aged in French oak barriques over a period of months to provide softness and complexity to the wine.
Producer Oyster Bay is a special place. Here in the South Pacific Ocean, on the tip of the Marlborough Sounds, it’s a world away. For many wine lovers around the world it’s a special wine too. From New York to Sydney to London and beyond, we are enormously proud Oyster Bay is one of the most sought after Super Premium wines internationally. From the moment we released our first vintage, we knew. Not only did we win best in world’ for our Sauvignon Blanc in 1991, we thrilled palates with New Zealand’s unique cool climate flavour intensity. Oyster Bay is a passion. It’s a vision. It’s a single minded promise to bring the best of New Zealand wine to the world. We don’t make reserves, anything more or less. We don’t reserve anything. We are the same family that’s been here from the very beginning, only grown a little, and learnt a lot. Oyster Bay has many stories. We can’t wait to hear yours.
| ABV: | - |
| Distillery: | - |
| Vintage: | 2018 |
| Region: | Hawkes Bay |
| Size: | 750 ml |
| Availability: | In Stock |
| Distributed by: | BLW |
