Little Giant Adelaide Hills Merlot 2022
- 90
- $22
- Drink by: 2022-2027
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Merlot, we are told, is enjoying something of a moment. It’s good to see. It’s also about time, to be truthful. It’s been a plaything, an add-on for Cabernet, for too long in Australia. Little Giant brings the joy to the grape, celebrating its fragrant aromatics and plush red fruits. An easy-going, well-priced young red itching to go in spiced cherry scents, black fruits, a touch of rhubarb, redcurrant, leafiness and rose. Overall structure is relatively firm, tannins are chewy, and the palate has hints of the savoury. There’s a fair bit happening here, which makes it a good all-rounder kind of Merlot. The wombat hero of the Little Giant label would approve.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
