Paritua Syrah 2018 Bottle:1 and nutmeg

and nutmeg

a portion of the wine is moved to American oak barrels to deliver subtle notes of cedar and brown spice

It works well with a classic Toulouse Style French Cassoulet with a whole duck leg confit cooked in its own bowl with cannellini beans

The remaining juice was fermented in stainless steel to retain a fresh natural flavor

Paritua Syrah 2018 Bottle:1 and nutmegFrom Bridge Pa in Hawke's Bay, made from whole bunch fermentation of the Chave clone of Syrah, and aged 12 to 14 months in a mix of 225 litre and 500 litre French oak barrels, 50% new. Again, a fine sense of lifted, more delicate fruit character here, but beneath a more solid blackberry weight comes through and just a nice little herbal note of stemminess. In the mouth relatively plush and smooth, a darker fruit quality than the Te Mata, and a