Russell & Suitor Son of a Bull Merlot 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Russell & Suitor Son of a Bull Merlot 2025.

Russell & Suitor Son of a Bull Merlot 2025
$35, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.

This is a medium-weight, herb-strewn red wine with redcurrant, raspberry, peppercorns and fresh red cherry flavours as the drivers. It has a slightly bitter, tonic-like edge but it’s offset ably by forest berry and wintergreen characters. It tastes like a wine from a cool climate, a point aided by its long, slender shape as it passes through your mouth. It’s a wine of shadows and highlights, like a walk through a forest on a sunny day. It will age well. 90 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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