- New Zealand International Wine Show: Gold (2024 Vintage)
- Real Review: Gold – Huon Hooke (2022 Vintage)
- National Wine Awards Aotearoa: Gold (2022 Vintage)
- New Zealand International Wine Show: Gold (2023 Vintage)
- New Zealand International Wine Show: Gold (2022 Vintage)
- Real Review: Gold – Ranked #7 of 24 2020 Merlot blends from Hawke’s Bay – Bob Campbell (2020 Vintage)
- New Zealand International Wine Show: Gold (2023 Vintage)
- Real Review: Gold – Ranked #1 of 22 2021 Merlot blends from Hawke’s Bay – Bob Campbell (2021 Vintage)
- National Wine Awards Aotearoa: Gold (2021 Vintage)
- 98/100 Andrew Caillard MW:
"Deep crimson. Beautiful blackcurrant mulberry chinotto espresso aromas with praline, vanilla notes. Generous, buoyant and supple with superb cassis, mulberry, boysenberry fruits, plentiful chalky tannins, attractive volume and underlying mocha, vanilla oak notes. Chocolaty/ cedar firm at the finish with seductive dark fruits and linear fresh acidity. Superb density, balance and mineral length. A standout wine." (2019 Vintage)
- 96/100 Cameron Douglas MS:
"Enticing bouquet led by scents of roasted dark plums and blackberry, sweet toasty barrel with clove and vanilla pod then aromas of violets and sweet tobacco. A core of ripe red berry flavours and spicy, toasty barrel are emphasized by the abundance of fine chalky tannins adding mouthfeel and chewiness. As the wine opens up in glass the flavours of dark rose and violet emerge contrasted by dark plum and berry fruit, sweet oak and salivating acidity. There’s a saline note building on the complexity and length. Delicious, youthful, fresh and complex. Best drinking from 2023 through 2033+." (2019 Vintage)
- 19/20 Joelle Thomson:
"Talk about a fruit explosion thanks to Merlot’s 58% of this deeply fruit forward wine, underpinned with the excellent structure and smoothness of the two Cabernets; Cabernet Sauvignon makes up 25% while Cabernet Franc makes up 17%. The wine spent 18 months in French oak, 30% new and comes out with an alcohol of 13.9% which makes for a rich but balanced flavourful drop from winemaker Jenny Dobson, who shows her hand at understanding the great classic French reds that this wine is modelled on. It has great length and appealing drinkability." (2019 Vintage)
- Trophy – New Zealand International Wine Show (2014 Vintage)
- Romeo Bragato Wine Awards: Gold (2015 Vintage)
- 4/5 Stars, Cuisine Magazine (2014 Vintage)
- Tri-Nations Wine Challenge: Gold (2007 Vintage)
- Royal Easter Show Wine Awards: Gold (2009 Vintage)
- NZ International Wine Show: Gold (2008 Vintage)
- Romeo Bragato Wine Awards: Trophy (2008 Vintage)
- Royal Easter Show: Gold (2007 Vintage)
- NZ Wine Society Royal Easter Show: Gold (2006 Vintage)
- Royal Easter Show Wine Awards: Gold (2005 Vintage)
- Hawke’s Bay A&P Mercedes-Benz Wine Awards: Gold