Geoff Merrill Bush Vine McLaren Vale SGM 2017
- 93
- $28
- Drink by: 2024-2030
Share
From a favourite old vineyard of the team, the blend here is 52% Shiraz, 42% Grenache and 6% Mourvèdre. The wine spent 22 months in a mix of older oak puncheons, both French and American. A dark red hue, the nose is redolent of plums, blueberries, cassis and chocolate. Always great to see wines with some maturity and this one does show a little development, but there is also freshness and some complexity with grip and good intensity throughout. A wine which lingers with intent, this is a fine example of the blend. Enjoy over the next four to six 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.
