Russell & Suitor Son of a Bull Merlot 2024
$35, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.
Some wines, as soon as you put your nose or mouth near them, remind you strongly of sultanas. This is such a wine. It’s sweet-fruited and curranty with bay leaf, undergrowth and forest mint characters adding both bass and treble. It’s a wine of life, lift and medium-weight fruit, and it will work best alongside food. 89 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.
