Geoff Merrill G&W Cabernet Sauvignon 2014
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2021-2033
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This outstanding Cabernet comes off vineyards in Coonawarra and McLaren Vale. It’s a combination that works really well. The smooth elegance of Coonawarra with its sustained length and structural core is evident while the fleshier plumpness of McLaren Vale’s middle palate fills in any gaps, pulling the whole thing together. It has 22 months in a mix of French and American oak but only 10% was new. Lifted aromas of blackcurrant and perfumed violets with a powerful and insistent palate that extends to a very long finish. Super value for this quality.
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.
