McWilliam's
Mount Pleasant Merlot

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Merlot has established itself as one Australia’s favourite red wine varieties, the Mount Pleasant Merlot shows why.

While maintaining the smooth drinking qualities of this variety, this wine has distinctive Hunter Valley characteristics of red berry fruits with a savoury edge. Normally picked in late February to late March, grapes are crushed, cold soaked for 24 hours prior to fermentation on skins, which takes place over 7-8 days in headed-down stainless steel containers, with pumping over twice daily. The wine is then transferred into new and seasoned American oak puncheons where primary fermentation and malolactic fermentation is completed. Every six months, the wine is racked off and returned to the same oak for maturation over a period of 15 months.