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Rannach Reserve Clevedon NZ Merlot 2005
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86/100
Sweet, soft and savoury red with flavours suggesting ripe plum, cranberry, baked earth and Oriental spices. The fruit flavours are still fresh but the wine is begining to show a hint of forest floor bottle development. Made by a relatively new boutique winery in Clevedon (south-east of Auckland) a region that enjoyed an excellent vintage in 2005. Made from seven year-old vines and aged for fifteen months in French oak barrels.
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Tasted: Jun 2008 Closure: S'cap Average price: NZD $30 (~USD $25)
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