Geoff Merrill Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is a blend of 53% Coonawarra and 47% McLaren Vale. The striking thing about this wine is that it gets 32 months in American and French oak, and yet you’d hardly call it excessively oaky. It’s finely balanced, with that thread of linear Cabernet displaying a lift of blackcurrant and olive, while the richer, plush blackberry and plummy notes of McLaren Vale fill out the palate. It has the potential for extended ageing, but as it’s already 9 years old, it is starting to drink well. It has such a supple, balanced palate feel. An excellent wine.
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.
