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Merlot, Te Awanga, - 2005 - Kim Crawford Estate
Ref: A128405
Varietal Merlot characters abound. Rich ripe fruit is balanced with spicy oak and soft ripe tannins. Medium bodied the wine is immediately drinkable and will age well. The wine has youthful colour, ripe fruit tannin and subtle complexity.

This wine is predominately from grapes sourced from their Te Awanga Vineyard in Hawke’s Bay. An impervious subsoil makes vigour control easy and its maritime position ensures a long, slow ripening period ensuring maximum flavour. After pressing the wine was aged on its lees for 10 months in a mixture of new and aged barriques. Before bottling 14% of Cabernet Franc was added to give fruit lift and some structure to the wine.

Kim Crawford Wines was conceptualised over a glass of wine and founded because of a couple of babies.

The glass of wine was in London, the night big and the company good. Kim and Erica Crawford and David Gleave MW pondered wine styles of the world with youthful self-righteousness and decided the world needed a clean, top quality, fruit driven Chardonnay devoid of the heavy oak used at the time. The two babies who arrived shortly after propelled Kim and Erica to realise the dream and Kim Crawford Wines was established in 1996. Four thousand cases of wine were produced.

The fledgling company was one of New Zealand’s first “virtual wineries”: grapes were sourced from growers, the wine was made at other wineries and sales, marketing and admin managed from their central Auckland home. They had no name to call it by: no vineyards, roads or peaks, so they simply called it Kim Crawford Wines.

The Kim Crawford label now needed a face, a place to visit and to taste wine, something which could not be done at an inner city home filled with toddler’s toys. In 1999, the Crawfords were able to build a beautiful tasting room and cellar door facility at the coastal settlement of Te Awanga in Hawke’s Bay. They did this with the help of a group of prominent Hawke’s Bay grape growers headed by Jim Scotland.

In the beginning of 2000, a state of the art winery was opened in Marlborough. The winery has enabled Kim to pick grapes at optimum ripeness without restriction of processing facilities, contributing significantly to improved wine quality. About the same time, the Crawfords bought vineyard land to secure grape supply as world-wide demand for Marlborough wines soared.

Price: £10.12
Including VAT at 17.5%

Qty:

New Zealand (North Island)	2005	Medium Full Bodied
Merlot/Cabernet Franc	Red	Beef/Lamb/Game/Cheese
Kim Crawford Estate	Medium Dry	Drink or keep

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