Villa Maria Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot
- Red
- New Zealand
- Hawke's Bay
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Cabernet Franc
- Malbec
- Merlot
- Petit Verdot
- Carménère
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 4
- Community notes
- 78
- Merchant offers
- 31
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- UnknownNobody has published a critic score for a vintage we track
- Real drinkers
- 81/ 10078 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- UnknownNothing a merchant has quoted in a unit and a currency we can print
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 28 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Bordeaux Blend.
- Body4.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.7 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · plum, blackcurrant, cassis, blackberry, black fruit
- Oak · oak, vanilla, cedar, chocolate, tobacco
- Earth · leather, graphite, smoke, earthy, minerals
- Spice · eucalyptus, dried herbs, licorice, menthol, cinnamon
- Red fruit · red fruit, cherry, raspberry, sour cherry, strawberry
- Dried fruit · prune, dried cranberry, dried fruit, fruitcake, raisin
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Carménère. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone