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Estate Merlot 2021
$180.00 – $324.00
Tasting Notes
Our Estate Merlot exhibits aromatics of lifted fruit and star anice. The palate is rich and round and offers red plum and cherry flavours blended with savoury French oak. 20% new.
Vinification
Merlot grapes are handpicked, de-stemmed and crushed into open-top fermenters. The wine is then gently pressed and matured in French oak barriques for 18 months.
Winemaker: Scott McCarthy
2021 Vintage
2021 was a mild and sunny season with good rainfall at key times, resulting in healthy vines, an excellent ripening season, great flavour development and balanced acids. We had a harvest date for this parcel of fruit on the 16th March.
Wine Reviews
" The colour here is a red / maroon. This version of Merlot is slightly more rustic than some, which always provokes debate and division. Some love the style, others less so, but if you enjoy that touch of rusticity, get on board. There are notes of plum pudding, leather, chocolate, tobacco leaves, animal skins, undergrowth and black fruits. The palate is very sleek, well balanced and with impressive length. A well structured wine with fresh acidity, this is a fine Merlot. Enjoy over the next half dozen years. 92 points".
Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot, April 2025
Delivery
Free delivery for orders over $150. A flat $15 delivery fee will apply for orders under $150.
Additional delivery charges will apply if you are in remote regions of Australia.
Deliveries are made via Australia Post. Standard delivery times to all major cities is approximately 4-5 business days.
Vineyard
22 ACRES OF MATURE VINES
Gioiello Estate's vineyard is located within the Yea Valley on the Goulburn River, on the lower reaches of 651 metre high Mt Concord. Our 22 acres of mature vines were planted on north facing slopes between 1987 and 1992.