Merlot Red Wine Hardys VR Merlot Red Wine is a soft Australian red wine with flavours of intense plum and dark cherries with toasty oak on the finish.South Eastern Australia has a climate wellsuited for growing grapes with warm summer days and plenty of sunshine allowing full fruit flavours and sugar to develop.Hardys wine offers a great selection of quality wines that cater to a wide range of palates from robust red wines to crisp white wines each meticulously crafted to reflect the rich winemaking heritage and innovative spirit of one of Australias most esteemed wineries.Hardys is one of Australia’s oldest wineries founded in 1853. Despite South Australia being a far removed place Thomas Hardy was certain he could make ‘wine that will be prized in the markets of the world’. Thomas Hardy helped forge the Australian wine industry and was a true pioneer entrepreneur and visionary. Today our winemakers continue to uphold the Hardys pioneering and visionary spirit