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Wine Merlot 2008

Wine Merlot 2008

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Technical characteristics
  • Sugar contentDry Wine
Description
Viticultural & vinification notes Winemakers comments
Vintage conditions
Warm temperatures throughout the summer and during ripening resulted in an early harvest. Colour


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Palate


Red with a red hue

Lifted black jubes, cassis and tomato leaf with a touch of eucolypt and red fruit.

A full bodied, dry wine with moderate acidity. The wine has good fruit intensity and displays dark fruit, mocha, red current and choc mint with a hint of beetroot. The tannins are powerful for Merlot and provide a very good structure that is not always seen in this variety. The wine has great length, finishing with a black jubes after taste and fine powdery tannins.

Vineyard Three Hills Karridale
Hand pruned to rods
Hand picked
Grape variety
87.5 Merlot 12.5 Cabernet Franc
Maturation 12 months in French oak barriques and 1 year minimum in bottle prior to release where maturation is conducted under screw cap.
Wine analysis
Alc/Vol: 14.2
Acidity: 6.3g/l
pH: 3.66

Residual Sugar:<0.5g/l
Merlot has arguably been the Happ's flagship wine, our best recognised and most sought after red wine. We have been making it since 1984 and it has been very successful in shows with gold medals in 84, 85, 91, 93 and 94 and a couple of trophies for Three Hills Merlots. Over the years we have moved towards riper styles and longer skin contact. At the same time, show judges have been consciously rejecting wine with pyrazine aromatics. Today' Merlot is more intense in flavour, it becomes approachable at about three years of age, and will cellar for an extended period.
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