Oliver Styles, Metro Magazine Jun 19, 2023
The Three Fates are Holly Girven Russell, Hester Nesbitt and Casey Motley — three winemaking friends who got together to produce their own wines after several years working harvests across the globe. This wine, from their inaugural vintage, comes from fruit grown in the Noetzli vineyard in Maraekakaho, Hawke’s Bay. It’s a fantastic bottle of cabernet franc, with aromatic notes of red fruits, cedar, tea leaf and tomato leaf. The fruit is pure, bright, inviting, ripe and delicious. In fact, deliciousness cropped up a lot in the tasting notes (“yum,” wrote Dale), while Connell praised the wine’s density and tension.