Buller Valerie Merlot 2004
$2999each
$359DOZEN
WineryBuller
Fruit Merlot
Regions Rutherglen
  Victoria
Each $29.99
$359.00
Currently out of stock
"FOUR STARS****!" Winestate. One of Buller's more outstanding offerings and certainly quite a superior effort for in a Rutherglen Merlot. It's Medoc like climate has yielded a sublime and velvety red that delivers, from nose onto the tongue. Harvested and plunged by hand and basket pressed, this intensely aromatic wine offers ripe plummy fruits, mint and dark chocolate on the nose. The palate is equally intense with dark fruits, dried herbs and enticing savoury and gamey characters. Not your average Merlot, albeit one that will continue to integrate and soften over the next 6 to 8 years.
The name Valerie refers to the winemaker's mother, Valerie Buller, matriarch of the Buller family winery. Planted in 1987, Buller's Indigo Valley vineyard consistently produces fruit of high quality. At 250 metres above sea level, the vineyard is ideally situated for growing Merlot. The warm sunny days ensure the grapes are well ripened whilst the cool crisp nights preserve the pure fruit characters. A champion, immense and tender Merlot with prominent gentle vapours on the nose and soft flavours that reflect the quality of the crop and winemaking skill. Alcohol 15%
TASTING NOTES
Colour is red with with broad layers of a very deep garnet. Bouquet is earthy, gardeny with velvety berrys, a sweet perfume of violets and plum fruits. Intense flavours of plum and berry fruits that combine with the most distinguished tannins create soft flavours that develop into a heightened and juicy mouthfeel. Hints of chocolate and some savoury characters on the middle palate. Tannins and acid are in balance with fruit flavours. Good length and soft finish.
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About the Buller Winery
After a distinguished career in the Royal Australian Navy, Reginald Langdon Buller in 1921 took up land at Rutherglen in the winegrowing region of North East Victoria
The Rutherglen winegrowing region was then, as it is now, famous for its fortified wines, Muscats, and full bodied red wines. Reginald Buller called his vineyard Calliope after the British warship. Producing delicious luscious wines and gutsy, full-bodied reds, the backbone of this vineyard is Rutherglen Shiraz. Old Shiraz vines at Calliope are not irrigated so yields are low at about one tonne to the acre. Consequently the fruit from this vineyard produces intensely flavoured wines, but in rather small quantities, that Andrew Buller crafts into wines of great depth and elegance. There are also small plantings of some of the rarer varieties including Mondeuse and Cinsaut. Buller»