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Tenefeate Creek Merlot 2009

August 8, 2014

Tenefeate Creek Merlot 2009 (Adelaide, SA)
14.5% Screwcap, $25

Source from up near One Tree Hill on the border between the Barossa, Adelaide Plains and Adelaide Hills. Quite a history of winemaking in that part of the world, though with suburbia knocking on the doorstep it might not stay as vineyard land forever.

This was basket pressed and spent 18 months in seasoned oak.

Definitely some vintage challenges here – it’s so chunky you can carve it. Full and slightly stewed, the fruit here is a little faded and replaced largely by oak tannins. Has concentration and plenty of flavour, but ultimately a little hard edged with blunt added acid and overwrought by oak.

Not quite.

Source: Sample
Tasted: July 2014
Drink: 2014-2020
Score: 15.8/20, 86/100
Would I buy it? No.
Buy online: Tenefeate Creek website

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    At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.

    Almost twenty years later and I currently spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.

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