Dowie Doole Merlot 2009

Merlot and McLaren Vale are not the two things I normally would think are associated. Have a look at the Dowie Doole website as it is rather fun and informative. This is the introduction on their site that details how they got started.  I can see a lot of labels starting as a result of drinking red wine for breakfast.

"A bottle of good wine can help solve many problems. At least that was the thinking of friends Norm Doole and Drew Dowie as they watched the sun rise after enduring a cold, all-night session harvesting some of their fruit during the difficult 1995 vintage.

Seeing their grapes being trucked away to other wineries and frustrated at not being in control of their fruit from that point, the two opened a bottle of red wine over breakfast and decided then to form a partnership, the purpose of which was to take charge of all aspects of growing grapes, making, bottling and selling their own wine."

Dowie Doole Merlot 2009

It is not the most complex wine but what it does have is an easy appeal and a beautiful approach.  There are flavours of dark chocolate, plums and olives set against a light tannin structure.  If I got home from work and I wanted to just de-stress, this would be the wine for me.  Pleasure me a glass, please.

Alcohol: 14%
Price: $22
Rated: 84
Drink: Now - 2014