2019 Ngatarawa Glazebrook Black Label Hawke’s Bay rose

Price: $25

Rating: Very good

Orange/onion skin hue. Smoke, wildness, tilled earth spices. Brooding palate with power and weight, the berryfruit notes growing as it opens up. A quinine like bittersweet element brings things to a zesty close. With its powerful build, this would complement richer summer foods: a nice foil to a BBQ perhaps?