This is a fruit driven Hawkes Bay Merlot ready to drink or for the short term cellar. A perfect match with roast lamb and minted potatoes.

The nose exhibits perfumed violets and dark red fruit of plum and cherry. The palate is soft, with rich ripe fruit and fine tannin structure balanced nicely with integrated lingering oak, resulting in a palate of length and complexity.

Intense brick red with purple hues. Ripe and round blackberries conspire with flavours of plum and cinnamon spice. Notes of brooding red berries and fresh brewed coffee. Impressive length and structure with seductively soft and lingering finish. Try with T-bone steak or any meat off the BBQ. This wine has the flavour, structure and balance to be enjoyed now or offers added satisfaction from further cellaring.

Intense red and purple hues. Fresh and voluptuous flavours of black cherry, blackberry, chocolate and spice. Deep spice engage with notes of ripe berries with hints of smoke and espresso, culminating in a soft velvety finish. This wine has the flavour, structure and balance to be enjoyed now or offers added satisfaction from further cellaring.

Cool red berry fruits, but berry fruits that are also ripe and rounded. The tannins are smooth and welcoming, yet cabernet tannins will do what cabernet tannins will do: sweep through the palate. Accompanying them is a neat acidity and a slick, balanced alcohol. Cabernet sauvignon in equilibrium.

A soft and gently rounded palate with ample rich fruits smoothly laced with bucolic tannins and framed by a keen keel of stirring acidity. Plums and blackberries return along with hints of milk chocolate. The giving blackberry and plum fruit is perfectly counter-weighted by the strangely reassuring gruffness of the tannins.

Aromas of ripe red fruit such as plums and raspberries, complexed by delicate chocolate and vanilla provided by the oak.

Intense ruby red with purple flashes. Complex in nose, with fresh aromas that recall fresh cherries and strawberries. Elegant floral notes. Its concentration and smoothness combined with its acidity ensures a persistent and elegant wine. Great value for money.

Deep red colour, with aromas of ripe red fruits such as plums and raspberries complexed by delicate chocolate and vanilla provided by the oak.

Delicate aromas of maraschino cherry and cloves with an overlay of spice. The palate is fresh and vibrant with hints of vanilla and spice and a long lingering finish.

Select parcels of Pinot Noir from around New Zealand went into this wonderfully fruit-driven wine, bursting with dark cherry and wild lavender aromas, with notes of red liquorice and clove and a smooth finish.

This Squealing Pig Tempranillo is fantastically drinkable, with verve and minerality. With bright cherry and forest fruits lifting out of the glass, this wine is medium-bodied and bursting with red fruit flavours. This wine is ready to drink now with something suitably Spanish like Paella.