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11 x 2008 Shannon Mount Bullet (750ml), Provenance: Restaurant Mosaic Wine Cellar Collection
The name Mount Bullet originates from Bullet Bay on the ocean side of the mountain, and made from both French and Italian Merlot clones. Considerable emphasis is placed on maximising the different clone expressions. Matured for 20 months in 225l oak.
The John Platter Wine Guide: "Shannon 'Mount Bullet' Merlot 2008 is an impressive wine with a fragrance of ripe red fruits such as plums and dark cherries, with earthy complexity and yet still expressing minerality. Maintaining a good acidity lends to outstanding freshness with a well integrated ripe and seductive tannin structure. Incorporating a minimal winemaking intervention approach, such as natural ferment and only two punch downs daily, retains silkiness and elegance." When tasting this wine for the first time most people are amazed to find that it is 100 percent Merlot. This offers a fragrant, ripe red fruit medley such as plums and dark cherries, earthy with touch of orange peel complexity, lead pencil minerality, juicy, very good acidity lends an outstanding freshness very well intermingle with the ripe and delicate tannins structure, silky and elegant, almost a Pomerol in a ripe year, has everything a Merlot has to be, this is stunning stuff.
"This is a stellar and immensely attractive Merlot that's sure to impress any true wine lover. Fig, black plum flesh, sweet cola glaze and black raspberry sauce dominate, with accents of leathery spice and cigar tobacco adding depth and complexity. It's round and full in the mouth with dainty fine grain tannins and a long finish." - Wine Enthusiast 91/100
Platter 5*
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