Trinity Hill The Trinity Hawkes Bay 2020
£15.95
The wine
Perfumed leather and plums from the Merlot, with spice and red fruit from the Cabernets. The palate is supple.
The Trinity is a Bordeaux blend led by Merlot, sourced predominantly from the Gimblett Gravels. The Gimblett Gravels is an 800-hectare district defined strictly by its soil, deep river gravels left exposed when the Ngaruroro river shifted course in an 1867 flood. It is one of very few appellations anywhere drawn by geology rather than by boundary lines on a map. Merlot ripens earlier than Cabernet, which makes it the more reliable partner at this latitude and explains why it leads the blend here.
The producer
Trinity Hill
View all Trinity Hill winesTrinity Hill is one of the defining names of Hawke's Bay and a pioneer of the Gimblett Gravels, the warm, free-draining district that has become New Zealand's finest home for Syrah and Bordeaux varieties. The estate helped prove what this remarkable terroir could do.
From its Hawke's Bay range of bright, accessible wines to the concentrated Gimblett Gravels bottlings, Trinity Hill farms with an eye for both freshness and ripeness, drawing structure and spice from the sun-warmed stones.
The Gimblett Gravels Syrah and the flagship Homage are benchmarks of the New World for this grape, peppery and profound, while The Gimblett red and the 125 Chardonnay show the estate's range. The Hawke's Bay wines offer the same craft in a more immediate style.
Ambitious, age-worthy and proudly of their place, these are wines that put a region on the world map. Discover the estate that helped define the Gimblett Gravels.
