Wines of Merritt Cabernet Franc 2024
$45, 13.9% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.
This is a grainy, meaty, minty red wine with leather, blueberry, gravel and cocoa-powder flavours rippling throughout. It’s refreshing and well measured but it also has a bit of grunt to it. There’s a menthol note here too, along with tobacco, and a noticeable rake of dry tannin. There a good deal going on, both in flavour and structure terms. 91 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.
