Stonier Merricks Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $70
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The first bottling of Merricks Pinot Noir under Julian Grounds guiding eye. This is a blend of Gance and Stonier vineyards. All MV6, wild yeast with 20% whole bunch and aged in French barriques of which 11% was new. Plenty of rambutan, red cherries and some bilberries. Here the whole bunch of spice takes on a woodier and more rufous toned nature. Some bloody meat and ironstone. Sumac and pink peppercorn. Tannins spread evenly with deliberate saturation, there is also some generosity to its viscosity. It’s a wine for tomato based stews, or slow cooked meats. Drinking well now or will cellar for 6-8 years further easily. This is not a wine you will easily forget, its muscle and staying power worth the price alone.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
