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2020 Lock & Key Merlot

$27.00

seductive spicy complexity.” 

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Description

Our 2020 Lock & Key Merlot was sourced from our friends in Coonawarra, SA.

  • Vintage: 2020
  • Variety: Merlot
  • Alcohol: 14%
  • Region: Coonawarra, SA
  • Bottle Size: 750ml
  • Case Size: 12
  • Country: Australia

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Awards

Awards

Vintage 2018 

  • 92pts – Wine Orbit
  • 91pts – Wine Matrix

Vintage 2017

  • 93pts – James Halliday
  • 93pts – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
  • 93pts – Stephen Read, Wine Matrix

Vintage 2014

  • 93pts – James Halliday, Wine Companion
  • 4 Stars – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

Technical & Tasting Notes

Technical & Tasting Notes

VITICULTURE

Our 2020 Lock & Key Merlot was sourced from our friends in Coonawarra, SA.

WINE MAKING

Cold soaked pre-ferment, 11 day fermentation, barrel aged in used French hogsheads and barriques.

TASTING NOTES

Generous, powerful and concentrated palate with lashings of rich, ripe, dark fruit flavours. There’s a core of beautiful forest fruits and dark chocolate on the mid palate. Charmingly balanced, the finish is velvety and smooth.

Reviews

Reviews

Vintage 2020

“Attractively fruited and elegantly fragrant with sweet plum, dried herb, clove and almond notes, it’s juicy and supple in the mouth displaying medium body and smooth texture. Well framed by chalky tannins, finishing lingering and pleasingly dry. At its best: now to 2027.”  Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

Vintage 2018 

“..inviting on the nose showing Black Doris plum, mulberry, subtle spice and vanillin oak characters.. succulent fruit flavours.. lovely weight and intensity.. seductive spicy complexity. At its best: now to 2025”  Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

“Complex aromas of blackcurrant, blueberry, dark chocolate with sweet vanillin oak tones.. soft tannins, dark fruits and a hint of dark chocolate. The fruit is balanced with good acid leading to a long flavoursome finish.”  Stephen Read, Wine Matrix

Vintage 2017

“A beautifully composed merlot; the inviting bouquet shows Black Doris plum, raspberry, olive and floral characters, followed by a wonderfully supple palate that is rounded and flowing. It is elegant and persistent to a lingering delectable finish.” Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

“This wine shows aromas of sweet mulberry, blackcurrant cassis with herbal and earthy tones. On the palate it is tight with soft tannins, dark fruits making it both complex and in harmony. Clean acid adds to the good length to finish the wine, overall very enjoyable and serious wine.” Stephen Read, Wine Matrix

“…a really attractive merlot” James Halliday

Vintage 2014

“…The wine has abundant cassis fruit underscored by dried herbs, black olive, ripe tannins and a touch of oak. Typical Moppity over-delivery.” James Halliday Wine Companion

“The wine combines attractive fruit flavours with savoury complexity, displaying dark plum, smoked game, clove and dried herb characters on the nose. The palate is ripe and rounded, and shows lovely fruit weight and intensity, well-structured by fine, chalky tannins. A charming cool-climate expression.”  Sam Kim Wine Orbit

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