New Zealand / Bordeaux blend

Hawke's Bay 1965 Bordeaux blend

Source-supported older-vintage draft: Hawke's Bay 1965 has meaningful Tom McDonald/McWilliams Cabernet evidence, but it remains a rare producer-led historical exception rather than a broad regional vintage call.

84 - Good
Score84
ConfidenceModerate
MaturityMature
Window1975-2005

Vivintage verdict

Good

Source-supported older-vintage draft: Hawke's Bay 1965 has meaningful Tom McDonald/McWilliams Cabernet evidence, but it remains a rare producer-led historical exception rather than a broad regional vintage call.

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