Wines of Merritt Chenin Blanc 2024
$42, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.
This is a white wine with a tonne of attitude. It’s textural, it’s ripped with mango and stonefruit flavour, and at every step along the way it feels punchy and bold. There’s a spicy, rusty, steely character on the finish, which adds more interest. You don’t relax with this wine. You take it on. 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.
