Oyster Bay Merlot Hawkes Bay

Oyster Bay captures the special character of New Zealand's cool climate viticulture... elegant, assertive wines with glorious fruit flavours.

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Wine of New Zealand

Ripe plum, berry fruits and hints of spice, accentuated with a nuance of oak and an elegant, lingering soft texture.

Oyster Bay Merlot is about elegance and intensity of fruit. The hero is always freshness of ripe fruit, spice and soft tannins on the palate.

Oyster Bay is New Zealand's third largest wine maker and defines the stature and style of New Zealand wines. It produces elegant, assertive, Super-Premium wines, with glorious fruit flavours from the renowned regions of Marlborough and Hawke's Bay. Hawke's Bay's ancient alluvial river terraces provide for a superb mix of soils over gravelly, free-draining sub-soils. With a maritime climate, the vines are warmed by strong sunlight during the day, and cooled at night by Pacific ocean breezes. The grapes for Oyster Bay Merlot received a gentle pressing to release flavour without drawing out hard tannins. A large portion was aged in French barriques for 6 months to provide softness and complexity to the wine. "This juicy, ripe, blackcurrant-rich red offers a glimpse of the smooth, medium-bodied Bordeaux-style red that's the hallmark of the Hawke's Bay region" Anthony Rose, The Independent.

New Zealand

This wine can be enjoyed now or carefully stored for up to 2 years from purchase.

Perfect with warm, flavoursome dishes, or as an aperitif.

Bottle

Pack - Glass

Importer:
Delegat Europe Ltd,
London,
EC4A 1LT,
UK.

Contains Eggs, Contains Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Contains Sulphites and Egg.

Contains Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Oyster Bay

Produced and bottled by:
Oyster Bay Wines New Zealand Ltd.,
169 Evenden Road,
Twyford,
Hastings 4175,
New Zealand.

New Zealand

www.oysterbaywines.com
Delegat Europe Limited,
London,
EC4A 1LT,
UK.

The philosophy of Oyster Bay is to produce fine, distinctly regional Super Premium wines that are elegant and assertive, with glorious fruit flavours. Oyster Bay produces wines from the renowned regions of Marlborough and Hawke's Bay.

Delegat Europe Ltd

Merlot

2024

Hawke's Bay is one of New Zealand's warmest grape-growing regions. From Crownthorpe's sun-drenched terraces to the stony soils of the Gimblett Gravels, Hawke's Bay produces wine as diverse as the landscape itself, creating a world-class cool climate Merlot.

The special character of New Zealand's cool climate viticulture... elegant, assertive wines with glorious fruit flavours

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Oyster Bay Wines New Zealand Ltd

Serve with pepper steak, lasagne, roasts, rich mushroom, lamb, beef or wild game. Pasta with a tomato based sauce, pizza.

Michael Ivicevich

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Fruit was destemmed, crushed and transferred into stainless fermentation tanks. The must was inoculated with pure yeast cultures to enhance aromatics and fruit characters. Rackings and pump overs were performed during fermentation to obtain delicate tannins and maximise colour extraction. Following gentle pressing, the wine underwent malolactic fermentation in tank and French oak barriques. The blend was then oak-aged over a period of months to provide softness and complexity to the wine.