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It really does not matter where you come from trying is believing and here is a Merlot you just have to try! The colour is a perfect deep dark red with ominous overtones. The nose opens to a chorus of complex aromas and lovely inviting oak maturation characters. Fruit displays developed plummy characters with earthy, forest floor fruit. Spicy oak and now some bottle age combine to offer a maturing wine filled with promise and over delivers in all the right ways- A delight, that will add further dimensions to your cellar.
Winery Notes: A warm generous palate structure that is smooth and soft. Ripe plummy fruit with earthy tones combined with subtle spicy oak flavours. Good
middle palate weight and flavours, balanced acid and soft tannins enhance the lingering finish.
"4.5 stars"
James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2008
Shows strong varietal character throughout in an olive/ cedar/ spice spectrum; medium- bodied, with fine, silky tannins and a long finish. 90 points. 4.5 stars.
"cracker from Coonawarra"
Kerry Skinner, Illawarra Mercury, 27/09/2006
If you're mad on merlot then you'll need to go a long way to find a better offering than this cracker from Coonawarra. Winemaker Wayne Stehbens has a soft spot for merlot and has put together a superbly structured wine, supple and soft with upfront berry and plum fruit flavours, some background spiciness, nicely balanced oak and silky tannins. Drink it with braised duck.
"excellent depth"
John Fordham, Sunday Telegraph, 24/09/2006
Katnook Estate 2004 Merlot goes a long way to showcasing merlot's often concealed class as a stand-alone wine. Its flavours are ripe, spicy and inviting, with excellent depth and earthiness. "far too delicious for words"
Matthew Jukes, 100 Best Australian Wines 2007
This is a laser-guided Merlot, with textbook redcurrant purity. There is also a wondrous creamy fruit note that evokes memories of homemade summer pudding with whipped cream. Far too delicious for words, this is a wine that should only have been bottled in magnums
"ripe, racy, spicy and inviting"
John Fordham, Highlife Magazine
Katnook Estate's Merlot goes a long way to showcasing merlot's often concealed class as a stand-alone wine. Its flavours are ripe, racy, spicy and inviting, with excellent depth and earthiness. Like earlier releases, it's also soft and smooth, a factor that will find strong flavour with female consumers.
"simply awesome"
MX, 04/12/2006
Simply awesome. Smells like a herb garden with added oak. Smooth and complex taste that just goes on forever. When Melbourne's weather next takes a turn for the worse (and let's face it, that's often, even in December) settle on to the couch and enjoy this one while you watch the world go by.
"stunning"
Jeff Gordon, Heidelberg Weekly, 03/10/2006
It was stunning. Rich, ripe, plummy fruit with hints of mushroom and spices and some obvious wood, it was soft and generous on the middle palate and finished with a distinctive tannic pucker. It will certainly get better and better, but decanted and given time to breathe, it is already an absolute stunner and worth the money.
"velvety texture"
Mount Barker Courier, 18/10/2006
in a late, long ripening season, the Katnook Estate Coonawarra Merlot 2004 has plummy aromas and flavours enhanced by sweet oak in a velvety
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