Cabernet Merlot 2006

Wine Colour

Deep red with a youthful, purple rim.

Wine Bouquet

Varietal Cabernet overtones are evident with mint, faint licorice, and subtle hallmarks of French oak in spice, cedar and a tobacco like edge. Some herbal elements are also apparent with lashings of ripe berry fruit.

Wine Palate

The palate presents a firm, structured wine of medium body with ample, fleshy fruit. The Cabernet Sauvignon leads, giving generous ripe blackcurrant fruit characters and firm tannins which lay down the immediate structure of the wine. The Merlot then follows, with softer, fleshy plum and black cherry flavours, filling out the mid-palate. The wine then delivers a satisfyingly focused and spicy finish.

Suggested Food Matching

Lamb cutlets with garlic mash.

Critics Notes

Simple fruity and wonderfully appealing medium-bodied wine, made for current drinking. It's fruity and flavoursome, with a nice red berry vanillin oak sweetness. West Australian, 26 June 2008.

“Vibrant and juicy, with raspberry, mulberry and
blackcurrant flavours, good weight, power and
concentration. Delightfully approachable.”
Peter Forrestal, Sunday Time, 15 June 2008.

“Taylors [produce] good value wines such as this cabernet. It smells of black fruits, a light hint of regional mint and balanced vanillin oak. In the mouth it has ripe, satisfying flavour, chewy texture and friendly tannins… An ideal barbecue all-rounder.”
Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Age, 11 March 2008.

“… Bold, cassis, liquorice and peppermint aromas abound. This wine’s palate is lush, ripe and sweet fruited with loads of cassis, currant and lavender flavours in good concentration… Big, robust but silky smooth tannins.” WineNZ, 1 December 2007.

Cellaring Notes

Ready for immediate enjoyment however with careful cellaring will develop further to 2010, possibly longer

Older Vintages

2005