Elderton Barossa Merlot 2024
- 92
- $36
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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This comes from a small block within the home vineyard at Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley. It’s a juicy medium-bodied style with lovely supple fruit characters evident and lifted spices that dominate on the nose. The palate is loaded with a combination of succulent cherry-ripe and black fruit notes, but there’s a lift of light leaf and spice. This is largely second-use French oak, so the oak is subtle and understated, sitting neatly within the smoothly defined fruity profile. A wine that’s best in the reasonably short term, but a little extra time in cellar certainly wouldn’t harm it.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
