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$25.20The Story
There's a medal on this label, and it earned its place. "Alma" honors a Buck-family forebear, a Crimean War surgeon decorated for saving hundreds of wounded soldiers at the 1854 Battle of the Alma. The wine lives up to the story: a single-vineyard Pinot Noir from the elevated, free-draining Woodthorpe Terraces, this is Te Mata's most serious expression of the grape. Hawke's Bay isn't New Zealand's usual Pinot address, which makes this all the more of a discovery. Silky, red-fruited, and gently savory, it's proof that the country's oldest winery is still chasing new ground.
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There's a medal on this label, and it earned its place. "Alma" honors a Buck-family forebear, a Crimean War surgeon decorated for saving hundreds of wounded soldiers at the 1854 Battle of the Alma. The wine lives up to the story: a single-vineyard Pinot Noir from the elevated, free-draining Woodthorpe Terraces, this is Te Mata's most serious expression of the grape. Hawke's Bay isn't New Zealand's usual Pinot address, which makes this all the more of a discovery. Silky, red-fruited, and gently savory, it's proof that the country's oldest winery is still chasing new ground.
