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Coldstream Hills Briarston Cabernet Merlot 1997
Jeremy’s score 82/100Light mulberries, cassis and plums with cedary oak and greenish, sappy undertones.
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Coldstream Hills Briarston Cabernet Merlot 1998
Jeremy’s score 82/100Herbal and green-edged, hollow and minty.
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Coldstream Hills Merlot 2001
Jeremy’s score 89/100A leaner, medium term merlot with an earthy, tobaccoey aroma of plummy fruit, cedary oak and animal hide. Long, fine and supple, the palate presents tightly focused sweet plum and cherry fruit wrapped around fine tannins, but overlying a thread of herbal flavour. There’s some attractive firmness and shape.
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Coldstream Hills Merlot 2003
Jeremy’s score 91/100A supple and willowy but intensely flavoured varietal merlot for the short to medium term. Sealed with a Stelvin, its floral perfume of violets, black and red cherries and ripe plum is lifted but not dominated by a measure of lightly chocolate and cedary oak. Medium to full in body, it’s smooth and fine-grained, offering a polished expression of pristine fruit and mocha/chocolate oak.
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Coldstream Hills Merlot 2004
Jeremy’s score 86/100Briary, earthy and meaty aromas of plums, dark cherries and restrained cedary oak precede a forward, simple and fruity palate that thins out towards the finish. It lacks depth, richness of fruit and structure.
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Coldstream Hills Merlot 2005
Jeremy’s score 93/100Briary, meaty aromas of dark cherries, blackberries and lightly smoky/mocha oak precede a generous, ripe and juicy palate built around a firm structure of drying, papery tannins. It’s gamey and varietally correct, with pleasing length and balance. A trifle sinewy today, it should flesh out in future.
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Coldstream Hills Merlot 2006
Jeremy’s score 89/100An elegant and savoury merlot whose sweet chocolate/mocha/vanilla oak and some delicate blue floral notes lift its slightly raisined and currant-like aromas. Initially plump, smooth and generous, with juicy flavours of plums and red berries, it becomes more restrained and earthy as it extends towards its finish of lingering meaty fruit and fine, kernelly tannins.
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Coldstream Hills Merlot 2007
Jeremy’s score 82/100 -
Coldstream Hills Merlot 2008
Jeremy’s score 92/100 -
Coldstream Hills Merlot 2010
Jeremy’s score 92/100 -
Coldstream Hills Merlot 2012
Jeremy’s score 91/100 -
Coldstream Hills Merlot 2015
Jeremy’s score 93/100Stylish and deeply layered; dark cherries and plums, cedary oak and a faint meatiness.
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