Our flagship wines, including Coleraine, Bullnose Syrah, Alma Pinot Noir and Cape Crest Sauvignon Blanc.
2023 will be a lesson in “never count your chickens before they’re hatched.” It was a season that took Te Mata to new frontiers, and one we can’t wait to share with you. An extreme year setting new records on multiple fronts, 2023 was the: longest growing season ever (budburst to harvest +10% longer
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A memorable, incredibly early vintage, with significant highlights and some challenging moments. It resulted in wines with great varietal expression, restraint, tension, power, and length. Winter – Spring Winter was warm and dry. This led to an early bud burst and the earliest veraison in the last 30 years. Summer – Autumn
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A historically early and dry vintage that produced low crops with tiny berries, creating exceptional wines with fragrance, tension, purity, power, and persistence… the tricky part will be having the patience to enjoy them at their peak!
2020 was simply perfect. With low rainfall and fabulous weather 2020 will go down in the history books as one of the best on record. In fact, according to Te Mata Estate CEO Nick Buck – this is the best in Te Mata’s history.
2019 was a warm, dry, easy grape-growing season that has produced some of our most exciting results yet. We’re excited to get these out. Time will tell, but this could be one of our best.
With an exceptionally warm, classic, long summer – Vintage 2018 gave us an explosion of flavour and colour! Read the technical report from Senior Winemaker Peter Cowley here…
2017 was a year when the Te Mata team and the Te Mata method of production made all the difference. Hand-picking and hand-sorting, and careful vineyard management shone through and delivered fruit in remarkable condition. Thanks to our team’s outstanding efforts, many long hours, and a fast and furious harvest, we’ve ended up with a
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We couldn’t be happier with the fruit quality in 2016. The turnaround produced whites that look fresh and vibrant – showing full, ripe flavours and excellent acid balance. Reds appear plump, fruity, and with good levels of ripe tannins. Again, the reds have that depth of colour we’ve seen develop in the last three years,
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The success of 2015 is down to the lower than normal crops which provided great concentration and maximized the effect of the dry and warm mid-summer. The good fortune of well-timed weather when we wanted it outweighed any concerns from a cool start to the spring or a few late-season autumn showers. The charm of
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Spring of 2013 was unusually dry and mild leading to budburst a good two weeks early.October was warm and dry with half the normal rainfall and November continued to be very warm with six days over 25 degrees and one at almost 30 degrees – summer temperatures! The early trend continued with Chardonnay flowering in
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