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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by kmicho on 10/28/2021 & rated 90 points: Yum. Yum. And more yum. A really great Merlot. Deep, complex. Vanilla, cherry, plum, some other berry something else going on here. It’s really good. (257 views) | | Tasted by aaronmphoto on 12/26/2020 & rated 87 points: Was good but I found it a bit sour and earthy. Didn’t hold up well on a second night after corking it. We really enjoyed the 2013 merlot and had hoped this would also be as good. Unfortunately 2013 was better (321 views) | | Tasted by davidwiggins on 12/25/2020 & rated 91 points: Christmas dinner, with prime rib. (285 views) | | Tasted by Presidio Wine Bunker on 3/3/2018 & rated 91 points: Spice. Plum, Raspberries, chocolate. 90-91. Big fan (1225 views) |
| Hendry Producer Website Producer Location (Google Maps)MerlotMerlot is a dark blue–colored wine grape variety, that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines. The name Merlot is thought to be a diminutive of merle, the French name for the blackbird, probably a reference to the color of the grape. Its softness and "fleshiness", combined with its earlier ripening, makes Merlot a popular grape for blending with the sterner, later-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon, which tends to be higher in tannin.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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