Thompson Estate Margaret River Merlot 2021
- 90
- $35
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Small batch production for this Margaret River Merlot. A gentle red hue, the nose offers dry herbs, mushrooms, plums, red fruits and animal skins. There is good focus here and moderate length, finishing with soft tannins. Enjoy now and over the next three to five years. Single variety Merlot has never really taken off in Australia in the way many hoped, but this is certainly a decent effort and worth exploring.
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.
