How do you know what you like if you don't try new things? Our third rule of Reverse Wine Snobbery is Experiment With New Wines. Up next in our Ten Tenets of Reverse Wine Snobbery is our third, and ...

2022 was a very good year for wines from Hawkes Bay. With a warm and dry winter, and the earliest veraison in 30 years. Then quite a bit of rain before 30+ degree days until harvest. The wines ...

Back in the 1980s Coleraine was, like La Collina, a single-vineyard wine, made from grapes grown across the road from Te Mata’s winery. Now it’s a blend of cabernet and merlot grapes grown in ...

Merlot is one of the most important Bordeaux varieties along with Cabernet Sauvignon. It's fleshier and ripens earlier than Cabernet, resulting in softer wines with plush tannins and fruit. Bordeaux ...

So, how did this affect the 2023 vintage of Te Mata Estate’s legendary Coleraine, a blend based on the thick-skinned, late-ripening, cabernet sauvignon variety?

Traditionally known for its role in Bordeaux blends, alongside cabernet sauvignon and merlot, cabernet franc is increasingly being used for varietal wines. Cabernet franc grapes are super aromatic ...

Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

Beloved by consumers and professionals alike, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are responsible for producing some of the world’s most coveted wines, as well as some of its most accessible.

Orquídeas, her fourth album and second Spanish language LP, is out January 12, and today its second single “Te Mata” has arrived. Uchis is the star of her own dream palace soap opera in the ...

Te Mata Chief Executive Nick Buck calls it a year of extremes ... "We will have some of the best Cabernet-based wines we've ever made," he says. "And definitely some of the best Sauvignons as well." ...

Would I like to try a glass of the 2021 Yarra Yering Pinot Noir – or a glass of the 2020 Vasse Felix Cabernet ... well-represented – with the 2021 Te Mata Cape Crest (with some welcome ...