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Ros Ritchie Merlot 2016
A rustic, developing merlot whose bouquet of cherries, cranberries and raisins reveals faintly leathery and herbal notes. The palate is a little hard and linear, with some slightly jammy aspects as well as under-ripe vegeal aspects supported by green-edged tannins and finished with acids that remain a fraction awkward. From a warmer season – perhaps a little too warm.
Vintage
2016
Year to Drink
2021 - 2024
Jeremy’s score
85 / 100
Seal Type
Screw top
Ros Ritchie Merlot
Upper Goulburn
Price Range at Release: $30-$49
Vintage: 2018
Alc %: 14.0
$ Rel: 30
A rustic, developing merlot whose bouquet of cherries, cranberries and raisins reveals faintly leathery and herbal notes. The palate is a little hard and linear, with some slightly jammy aspects as well as under-ripe vegeal aspects supported by green-edged tannins and finished with acids that remain a fraction awkward. From a warmer season - perhaps a little too warm.
Last Date Tasted: 25/10/2023
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Cellar
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Drink Now
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Maybe Too Old
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Vintage
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Score/100
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Score/20
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2018
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91 | 17.4 | 2026-2030  | Buy it |
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2016
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85 | 15.6 | 2021-2024  | |
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2015
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91 | 17.5 | 2020-2023+ |
Winery
Ros Ritchie
Ros Ritchie was a winemaking star when I first got into wine. A genuine pioneer as a female winemaker, she has always let her own wines do the talking for her. Ros is a very talented maker of white wines, with great experience from what was once her family's property at Mansfield in Victoria's High Country. Her new wines from small sites around the Upper Goulburn and King Valley take this background into another and higher dimension of intrigue and complexity. We now see a totally professional and mature maker of wine working at a very high level indeed. There's nothing trendy or fashionable about Ros' modern wines. Instead, they deliver over and above expectations in terms of variety purity, structure and balance. Showing a thorough understanding of the international benchmarks for each wine, they're neither flashy nor showy - just great wines to enjoy.
Winemaker:
Ros Ritchie
Red Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon >
Cowan's Vineyard Shiraz
Merlot >Pinot Meunier >Pinot Noir >Sandy Creek Vineyard Tempranillo
Timbertop Vineyard Nebbiolo
Address:
The Magnolia , 190 Mount Buller Road , Mansfield , Victoria 3724 Australia
Principal Wine Region:
Upper Goulburn
Telephone:
0457 535 988
Website:
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