Destiny Bay 'Magna Praemia' 2024, Waiheke Island

There’s no mistaking the surge of ripeness and muscle that frames the bouquet of this wine with fat, juicy blackberries and currants, chocolate and fresh date, cedar and vanilla, clove and black cherry, wild violets and a stony clay-earth suggestion. There’s a gentle reductive complexity. A full-bodied dry wine on the palate with a concentrated and detailed mouthfeel. Flavours of dark berries, wood smoke, earth smoke and spices are set amongst myriad fine and polished tannins, a spine of acidity. Very lengthy and delicious with best drinking from 2035 through 2048+.

97 Points

Outstanding

RRP from $650.00

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From the producer: 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Merot, 6% Malbec, 4% Cabernet Franc & 4% Petit Verdot; 12 Months maturation in 50% French 50% American oak; 45% new barrels and 55% 1-2 old barrels. 550 cases produced