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| Reviews | James Halliday 2008 review | |
2005 Merricks Creek Pinot Noir receives 95 points and
Author: James Halliday 2005 Merricks Creek Pinot Noir 2004 Merricks Creek 'Close Planted' Pinot Noir |
Merricks Creek "Best of the best by variety"
Author: James Halliday |
2007 Sydney International Wine Competition
Merricks Creek is delighted to announce that on Saturday 3rd March 2007 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney we won the Air Sea Global Perpetual Trophy for 'Best Pinot Noir' at the 2007 Sydney International Wine Competition. Our winning Pinot was the 2004 Merricks Creek 'Close Planted'. There were 2000 wines (various varietals) entered from around the world, including New Zealand, France, USA and Canada. Wines were judged alongside food with multiple rounds of elimination to ultimately arrive at the TOP 100 which represented the top 5% of the competition. From this the Trophies were awarded to the highest scoring wines. This is what Kim Milne MW Chairman of Judges had to say; "The Pinot Noir class in recent years has been dominated by New Zealand. Last year, not one Australian Pinot made its way to the TOP 100. This year, in spite of 149 Pinot entries, only six Pinots made the TOP 100, less than in the past. A small production Pinot from the Mornington Peninsula stopped the total New Zealand domination by topping the group, but still, the other five wines were entered from New Zealand". |
2004 Merricks Creek Nick Farr Pinot Noir receives 95 points and a
Author: James Halliday 2004 Merricks Creek 'Nick Farr' Pinot Noir 2004 Merricks Creek 'Close Planted' Pinot Noir |
Merricks Creek "Best of the best by variety"
Author: James Halliday |
2004 Merricks Creek 'Nick Farr' and 'Close Planted' listed in
Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine
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Merricks Creek 2003 Nick Far Pinot Noir receives 5 glass rating from James Halliday in newly released 2006 edition.
Author: James Halliday Nick Farr Pinot Noir 2003 Very deep colour; rich, mouthfilling plum, cherry and blackberry fruits; very different style with great depth. |
2003 Merricks Creek Close Planted listed in Top 100 New Release Wines. Huon Cooke says our 2003 Close Planted is "gorgeous"
Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine
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2003 Merricks Creek Nick Farr gets 4 1/2 glass rating.
The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide
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Huon Hooke reviews the Merricks Creek Nick Farr Pinot Noir in the Sydney Morning Herald, Good Living section...'Put to the test'. Author: Huon Hooke
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Merricks Creek receives a 5 glass rating by James Halliday 2004
Author: James Halliday |
Merricks Creek "Best of the best by variety"
Author: James Halliday • 2001 Merricks Creek Nick Farr Pinot Noir - 96 |
Merricks Creek Close Planted Pinot Noir 2001
The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide CURRENT RELEASE 2001 As you might expect, it's a complex pinot, with a savoury, oak-marked, meaty and sour-cherry aroma, with some feral notes. The palete has ample tannin giving grip and structure; quite powerful and penetrating. Dark-cherry flavours linger long after it's gone. The overall impression is savoury and quite Burgundy-like. It would suit magret de canard. Quality 5 glasses The Top-quality Wines (5 Glass Rating) The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide "Each year, among the 1000-plus Australian wines we review in this Guide, there are some that make a special impression. These wines represent, to us, the acme of quality, character and style. Not surprisingly some are quite pricey; however, many are not, and in fact some of them are terrific bargains." Merricks Creek Close Planted Pinot Noir 2001 |
"Up the Creek, but paddling towards recognition" Australian Golf Digest Grant Dodd also awards 2001 Nick Farr as the |
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Gourmet Traveller Wine Among these are David and Tanya Bryant's Hillcrest Vineyards in the Yarra Valley; Peter and Georgina Parker's Mornington Peninsula Merricks Creek Wines....." |
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From Winestate magazine. (March/April 2003 issue)
Owners Dr Peter and Georgina Parker have scaled winemaking (and pricing) according to the quality of fruit they get starting with the young vines pinot ($22) through to Merricks ($37), the beautifully complex and star of the group, the close planted ($43) to the Nick Farr ($45). Farr is the son of Gary Farr of Bannockburn who takes some fruit from the Parkers and has been a bit of a guiding hand to the couple. Merricks Creek is at 44 Merricks Road, Merricks. |
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Author:
Jeni Port | Date: 15/04/2003
...Sure, we need great pinot noir to inspire us, but we also need good everyday pinot noir to get close to, to like and to understand. Thank goodness for a producer like Merricks Creek on the Mornington Peninsula. Merricks Creek is a vineyard devoted entirely to pinot noir, the creation of DR Peter Parker, a doctor of psychology, and his wife, Georgina. The enthusiastic Parkers admit they are new to the whole pinot "thing", which is why they have approached their wine marketing a little differently to most. They make four separate pinots, each at a different price point from $22 to $45 a bottle. For $2, visitors to their pretty, Mediterranean-flavoured, open-air cellar door can try a taste "flight" of all four wines and see the viticultural and wine-making progression from wine to wine. As far as enlightenment goes, it's considerably cheaper than $780. The starting point is the $22 Young Vines that receives the least oak and is vibrantly fruity. Next step up is the utterly addictive Merricks pinot noir ($37), which spent almost two years in 75 per cent new oak. It's followed by the Close Planted pinot ($43) which spent two years in 100 per cent oak and culminates in the Nick Farr pinot ($45) made by friend and Bannockburn-based wine maker, Nick Farr (son of Bannockburn founding maker, Gary). The Young Vines is delicious and keenly priced but there was pressure on the Parkers to set the price higher. "We had huge pressure on us to make it dearer," says Georgina Parker, a women bubbling with energy (she's the face of Merricks Creek while her husband works as a child psychotherapist by day). "People thought we were under-selling ourselves." Or perhaps they thought they were underselling the Mornington Peninsula, a region with a premium pinot reputation to maintain. The $22 wine is a big seller while the $45 wine, a seriously rich, exotic pinot, tends to divide people's tastebuds (a common occurrence once you enter into the world of the premium pinot). What if Merricks Creek only offered the $45 wine? "Oh God, you would absolutely lose people with that one. People either love it or hate it," says Georgina Parker. Perhaps that's why, inspired by the response from their customers, the Parkers are toying with the idea of producing a fifth style, an $18 pinot noir, this vintage. DR Peter Parker talks about making pinot for the people, especially young drinkers. "I would like to begin teaching them at the cellar door how to enjoy its subtleties, perhaps by comparing different pinots made from different clones, oaking levels, ripenesses and wine makers," he says. I say more power to Merricks Creek. |
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