Clarendon Hills Brookman Merlot
- Red
- Australia
- McLaren Vale
- Merlot
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 14
- Community notes
- 161
- Merchant offers
- 10
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 91/ 1002008 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 87/ 100161 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £19per 75 cl2008 · nearest vintage with a price · single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2015
- Drinking window
- 2010–2014past its window2008 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 13 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Merlot.
- Body4.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity1.7 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin2.3 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, blueberry, black cherry, black fruit
- Oak · oak, tobacco, chocolate, dark chocolate, vanilla
- Earth · earthy, smoke, leather, balsamic, mushroom
- Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, anise, eucalyptus
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, red cherry, red plum
- Dried fruit · prune, fig, dried fruit, raisin
Grapes: Merlot. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2003One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2008
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2015unit not stated
- 2011unit not stated
- 2009unit not stated
- 200891critic£19 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, November 2015
- 200792critic£14 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
- 200691critic£24 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
- 200592critic£25 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2020
- 200491critic£22 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
- 200391critic£19 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
- 200290drinkers
- 200190drinkers
- 199993drinkers
- 199891drinkersunit not stated
- 199691drinkers
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2005
- 92 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2007
- £14 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | £19 | 91 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2015 |
| 2007 | £14 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017 |
| 2006 | £24 | 91 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021 |
| 2005 | £25 | 92.3 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2020 |
| 2004 | £22 | 90.5 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017 |
| 2003 | £19 | 91 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018 |
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