Wines of Merritt Vermentino 2025
$36, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Blackwood Valley.
This is taut, textural and terrific. It tastes of citrus, apple skins, brine, grapefruit and aromatic herbs, the combined effect ever-so tasty and ever-so more-ish. When this wine has had a chance to relax a bit it will be better again. That said, the ‘muscle’ of this wine is part of its appeal. 93 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
