Quite rare to see Aussie merlot but this works, perhaps due to a cooler site in more maritime McLaren Vale. It is a...

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Hugh Hamilton’s merlot is a bruiser, an animal of earthy proportion that seems most at home out in the elements and...

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A stylish merlot, big and bold, highly aromatic and a touch reductive. Pepper and spice heed the way for the lush...

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An intensely boozy, eucalypt and baked black fruit-flavoured wine, rather hard and hot on the palate, lacking that...

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Hugh Hamilton The Ratbag Merlot 2016, Mclaren Vale, South Australia