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Mudbrick Velvet Waiheke Island NZ 2008
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93/100
A handsomely packaged wine in a heavyweight bottle with a wax capsule and individual wooden box. The blend of varieties is unspecified grape varieties. Texturally the wine lives up to its name. It has a dense, Christmas cake-like mix of very ripe fruit flavours plus liquorice, chocolate and mixed spice. Sweet flavours and sweetness from a high-ish alcohol of 14.2% are balanced by fine tannins. The wine has extraordinary length. Very impressive Waiheke red.
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Tasted: May 2010 Closure: Diam Average price: NZD $105 (~USD $88)
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