Bullnose Syrah 2024

Te Mata Estate, produktside (hentet 19. okt. 2026): 2024 Te Mata Bullnose Syrah – område: Hawke's Bay; druer: Syrah; alkohol 13%; 16 måneder på fad, 34% nye franske fade. Producentens noter (engelsk): Separate parcels of fully ripened syrah grapes were hand harvested from Te Mata Estate’s Bridge Pa, Gimblett Gravels and Dartmoor vineyards on 25 March and 9 April 2024. The individual lots were each destemmed and given a traditional warm-plunged fermentation. The resulting wines underwent extended maceration on skins before pressing and then a secondary malolactic fermentation. The separate wines were then run to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak barriques for 16 months’ maturation, with 34% being new oak. During this time, they were regularly topped and racked, before blending and then bottling in November 2025. The wine is named Bullnose after an early Morris Cowley car, which was nicknamed Bullnose due to its distinctive radiator. The bull emblem that appears on the wine label is drawn from the car’s radiator crest.