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Description
Brand
Puriri Hills
Region
Auckland
Varietal
Merlot Cab Franc Cab Sauv
Size
750ml
Alcohol %
14.0%
Vintage
2020
Country
New Zealand
Puriri Hills top wine is appropriately named ‘Pope' – it's a wine to be revered, admired, and respected just as you would in the company of Pope Francis. Originally named after Ivan Pope, the 2020 vintage is a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère, and Malbec. A perfect vintage and one that reaffirmed quality in the region, the handpicked fruit was harvested at a miserly 1kg per vine and saw nearly 2 years in 80% new French Oak before bottling without fining or filtration. Sealed under the finest, most expensive cork, it's a powerful, concentrated, deeply layered red wine that should live for 25
30 years if properly stored. No other NZ red is made so fastidiously & expensively from ground to glass. The Pope is NZ's #1 red wine in our opinion… Judy and her team have made it that way through ruthless dedication to quality. Only produced in exceptional years – in the last 11 vintages… only 5 Popes were made. All outstanding… 2010
2013
2014
2015 & capped by this “GOAT†2020 vintage! If you want to open a bottle now at 4
years of age… give it a “Double Decant†to enable it to open to the air and reveal some of its brooding complexity and beauty. But like the best vintages of Bordeaux's 1st Growths… you really should commit to aging at least through the 15
year mark (2035+) and beyond to experience its true majesty. Unlike Bordeaux's 1st Growths with productions ranging between 120,000 & 240,00 bottles… a miserly 4,600 bottles of Pope are produced. Make sure invest in a few bottles or a case of the “GOAT†of NZ's greatest red wine.
Smells
A bouquet of astonishing quality and concentration – complex notes of exotic perfumes including violets, cassis, dried plum, nutmeg, graphite, leather plus hints of dark chocolate and liquorice.
