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

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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