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2019 Mountain Dragon Merlot Blend 6 Pack
"Few take the time to grow, care and craft merlot in such a way. Damson plum, fresh prune and blackberry leaf. Juniper, allspice and black peppercorns are threaded throughout. The minute additions of cabernet sauvignon and shiraz frame that plummy fruit like a gilded picture, ensuring the wine will age gracefully and glacially. The wine sits comfortably in the mid-palate and acidity carries the flavours of granite, turned earth and vanilla bean on and on." 95points Shanteh Wale - Halliday Wine Companion
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- Tasting Notes
In 2019 we experienced a dry winter on the back of a dry 2018. Spring was warm with little rain, setting us up for another compressed harvest. In the vineyard focus was to ensure vines evaded the effects of heat stress; loose canopies to allow shading and judicious watering where possible. Due to the lack of rain throughout the season we experienced lower than normal crops, however quality was ensured with small berries and intensity of flavour across the board. A great year. Grapes were picked from Koomooloo Block 9, from Clone Q45. The vines were bunch thinned to one bunch a shoot and bunch wings removed, which produced under 3 tonnes a hectare of excellent fruit. The grapes where handpicked and chilled. The following day 75% destemmed, the balance added as whole bunch to the open fermenter. About 10% of juice was removed and fermentation started with native yeast 4 days later to help extract colour; the must was irrigated for a short time twice daily. The wine was removed from skins about 30 days after destemming and the skins pressed back to the main body of wine. The wine was pumped directly to 75% new French oak barrels and aged for 20 months in oak.
"Deep bright red/ purple Intense varietal fruits. It has a powerful berry coulis with ripe plum character but still maintaining brightness. The flavours follow the aromas the same Intensity of obvious mixed fruit characters. Considerable amount of tannin but very soft, supported by Integrated oak characters. A wine with great length, but still very youthful." PS