Geoff Merrill Henley Shiraz 2003 (Recorked)
$1,025
Geoff Merrill Henley Shiraz 2003 (Recorked)
McLaren Vale, Australia
“Henley is named in honour of my Grandfather, who passed away at the ripe old age of 102. This wine is the best of the best of our McLaren Vale Shiraz and only a maximum of 10 barrels of the Vintage are set aside for Henley.” – Geoff Merrill
The wine shows cedar spice, liquorice and toasty oak, well integrated with earthy bread yeast characters. The palate is elegant and tightly structured with an excellent acid tannin balance. These intricate and refined attributes follow through to the velvety palate, which when combined with fine layered tannins and balanced acid produces a rich, harmonious and elegant wine capable of long term cellaring.
Alc. 15%
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96 Points – Anthony Keys, The Keys Report
“It’s very good to see a wine that has been kept back and released when the maker thinks right. Nine years old seems an age, but we should remember we drink most wine before it’s reached its full potential. This has the old wine smell that many wine drinkers (I suspect) are not familiar with: fine old polish and dusty bookshops come to mind, both pleasurable in their own right. The palate is tart dark fruits with the drying tannins making it really interesting. The finish is long and memorable.”
93 Points – Jeremy Oliver, Australian Wine Annual
“A long, firm, stable and slowly maturing wine of longevity and structure. Handsomely oaked, but an older style, it sports a sweet, fiery bouquet of concentrated blood plums, cassis, raspberries, sweet cedar/vanilla oak backed by nuances of chocolates, leathery, spice and white pepper. Smooth and polished, its juicy, intensely flavoured palate of bright, brambly cassis blackberry and redcurrant flavour is matched with smoky vanilla oak and framed by a firm, rod-like spine of powdery tannin. It holds its alcohol well and reflects a very even quality of ripeness for the 2003 vintage.”
Winery Profile
GEOFF MERRILL WINES – McLaren Vale
Crafting wines under his own label since 1980, Geoff Merrill’s winemaking philosophy has been and always will be, to make wine that allows regional, varietal and vintage expression without excessive winemaker intervention. The McLaren Vale, in coastal South Australia, has unique characteristics – thin soils, limited water, and warm summers that harness the grape’s natural vigor and produce intense flavored fruit. ”
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