Merite Caves Cabernet Malbec 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Merite Caves Cabernet Malbec 2024.

Merite Caves Cabernet Malbec 2024
$40, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.

Merite is a master of merlot but this cabernet malbec blend proves that Merite is a master of many things. This is an excellent wine. It’s rich, dry, well balanced and well flavoured but what impresses most is the overall shape of the wine, the length of the tannin framework, and then the length of the finish. This wine tastes of blackcurrant, boysenberry, gum leaf, chocolate and roses, and while there’s good flavour throughout it really builds towards the finish – as the best wines do. Given the balance of this wine it can certainly be enjoyed now, but with structure and balance like this some time in the cellar will be rewarded. 95 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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