Te Mata Estate
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Te Mata Estate is an independent, family-owned Hawke's Bay winery and New Zealand's oldest, in continuous operation since 1895. The winery produces everything on-premises at their Havelock Hills site
Te Mata won a Gold Medal for its cabernet in the Imperial International Exhibition in 1909
The Buck family home, Coleraine Vineyard, across the road from Te Mata Estate.
Merlot
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Merlot is a dark-blue-colored wine grape variety that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines. The name Merlot is thought to be a diminutive of merle, the French name for the blackbird
Merlot grapes on the vine
A main cluster and an attached "wing cluster" of Merlot grapes with its characteristic dark-blue color
Cabernet Franc, one of the parent varieties of Merlot.
Merlot leaf from Hedges vineyard in the Red Mountain AVA