Elderton Barossa Valley Merlot 2024
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- Drink by: 2026-2034
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The family vineyard in the Nuriootpa sub-region of the Barossa Valley has a small block of Merlot within it. Since 1992, the team have been releasing their Merlot as a single varietal wine. Maturation is in older French oak for around fourteen months. Dark maroon with a crimson/purple rim, the nose provides an evocative array of aromas including plum pudding, chocolate, cassis, aniseed, mocha and black fruits. Supple and yet quite dense in structure, this is a medium to good length wine, finishing with fine, sleek tannins. Good focus throughout, this is rather delicious and a lovely example of Barossa Valley Merlot. Enjoy this over the next eight years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
