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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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