2021 Te Mata Coleraine

'This warm, dry, and historic vintage yielded an abundance of very small berries providing great concentration, and producing wines of exceptional purity, power, tension and persistence. This is an absolute original. 2021 Coleraine is ‘The One’' - Te Mata Estate

'Light but so dense… an extra dimension of tension and energy. All the graphite and presence. Incredible wine.' - Gary Walsh

'The length is prodigious. ' - Huon Hooke

This is the southern hemisphere's most important icon wine, and here might just be one of the most illustrious vintages ever in its 37 year history. There are few wines with as much praise or universal admiration as Coleraine, and coming alongside a trio of outstanding releases, the 2021 Coleraine could well be the crowing achievement of this now world-famous wine. They’ve called it Grange like, Sassicaia like and even a dead-wringer for First Growth Bordeaux, yet Coleraine is its own thing. It is a wine of gravitas, intelligence, and beauty that transcends all others, yet costs a mere fraction of the price.

“New Zealand’s Grange equivalent, only it comes from one place, is much cheaper, and to my tastes, is significantly better and more interesting” Gary Walsh

“A National treasure” Jancis Robinson

“A Wine legend – the most avidly collected of New Zealand red wines” - Decanter Magazine

“There is no denying that Coleraine has been NZ’s ‘Latour’ for a while.”  Matthew Jukes

The 2021 release is an apex cabernet blend, a singular wine that could only result from a remarkable vintage. Combining an unequalled harvest, cutting-edge winemaking technology, and 127 years of fine wine pedigree, Coleraine 2021 stands alone – a wine of unique provenance even by Te Mata Estate’s exacting standards.

2021 was a definitive growing season; the earliest ever bud break on Te Mata Estate’s vineyards led to the earliest ever harvest. This warm, dry, and historic vintage yielded an abundance of very small berries providing great concentration, and producing wines of exceptional purity, power, tension and persistence. This is an absolute original.

Just one bottle of Grange, or Screaming Eagle, or Chateau Margaux will cost you more than an entire case of Te Mata's Coleraine. And yet, for sheer enjoyment and overall wow factor, it’s easy to know which we would choose every single time. Coleraine. It's a beauty. A slip of a thing that ushers in layers of boysenberry, graphite, whisper-licks of tissue paper tannins, cassis and earth, soil and bay, with a vibrant, lustrous mauve colour that invokes the vitality and fertility of the Hawkes Bay region from where it comes.