Hartz Barn Wines

Wines

2002 Barossa Mail Box Merlot

A nose of dark cherry and plum with a concentrated palate of blackberry and spicy fruit and soft fine tannins deliver a balanced Barossa Merlot wine of distinction.

Selected bunches of premium Merlot grapes from a single Barossa vineyard were picked on 23rd April 2002, crushed and fermented in open vats for 7 days, basket pressed followed by malolactic fermentation in French hogshead oak barrels for 67 days. This 2002 Hartz Barn Wines Mail Box Merlot wine was racked and returned to the French oak barrels for 12 months maturation before bottling on 10th April 2003.

Alc./Vol.: 14.4%
Residual sugar: 0.73g/L
pH: 3.53g/L
TA: 6.07g/L

Reviews

92/100
This is one of the best balanced Merlots I have tasted this year. Deep, black, cherry red in colour with a heady nose of plum and cedar. The oak here is a fine counterpoint to the spiciness of the plummy fruit. The palate is round and intense with black cherry and other black fruits forming a wonderful complex melange. This is a silky, sensuous wine with ripe textured fruit and seamless structure. The mouthfeel is full, sweet and rich with significant length which finishes with a kiss of chocolate. Why wait to enjoy this, drink now to two years.

— Dr Ron Georgiou, MW

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