Dowie Doole Estate Merlot
$2299each
$275DOZEN
WineryDowie Doole
Fruit Merlot
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
Each $22.99
$275.00
Available by the dozen
There really is a Dowie Doole, architect/grower Drew Dowie and international banker/grower Norm Doole. Their dedicated team have struck a purple patch with Merlot, fortifying the pick of their crop with a tenth of Cabernet Sauvignon for structure, aromaticness and length. At Dowie Doole, quality drives everything. Viticulturally, the ultimate expression of quality is in delivering harvests of the most exceptional fruit to make great wines. The requisite McLaren Merlot style of early accessibility and soft lingering flavours, gracious tannins and supportive oak.
Some of the finest, eldest and most distinguished McLaren Vale vineyards have now been welcomed into the Dowie Doole family. Merlot is harvested in excellent condition as the grapes achieve rich colour, exemplary varietal flavour, good acidity and fine ripe tannins. Fruit is crushed and vinified on skins in a static fermenter for six days. A third of the juices are run off into medium toast American oak hogsheads and barrel fermented to dryness. The balance is fermented to dryness and transferred to a selection of seasoned, second and third use barrels. Batches complete malolactic and several months maturation before assembling into the final wine.
TASTING NOTES
Bright crimson red, purple hues. An aromatic nose dominated by spices and ripe red fruit such as plums, rhubarb and cherry. A medium bodied palate with barrel fermentation integrating the oak with ripe plum and soft, herbaceous, berry characters. The wine opens up to reveal roasted chocolate and coffee characters finishing with soft, rounded tannins.
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  Each $28.99
  $347.00
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  Each $54.99
  $659.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $28.99
  $347.00
Available by the dozen
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Fruit Chenin Blanc
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $22.99
  $275.00
Available by the dozen
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Dowie Doole Estate Merlot
WineryDowie Doole
Fruit Merlot
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $22.99
  $275.00
Available by the dozen
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WineryDowie Doole
Fruit Shiraz
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $22.99
  $275.00
Available by the dozen
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Dowie Doole Grenache Vermentino Rose
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Fruit Grenache Vermentino
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $22.99
  $275.00
Available by the dozen
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Dowie Doole GT Grenache Tempranillo
WineryDowie Doole
Fruit Grenache Tempranillo
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $22.99
  $275.00
Available by the dozen
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Dowie Doole Moxie Sparkling Shiraz
WineryDowie Doole
Fruit Shiraz
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $35.99
  $431.00
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Dowie Doole Reserve Shiraz
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Fruit Shiraz
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $82.99
  $995.00
Available in cases of 6
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Dowie Doole Vermentino
WineryDowie Doole
Fruit Vermentino
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $22.99
  $275.00
Available by the dozen
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About the Dowie Doole Winery
A bottle of good wine can help solve many problems, such were the thoughts of Norm Doole and Drew Dowie as they watched the sun rise after enduring a cold, all-night session harvesting some of their fruit from 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»