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| Drinking window: Drink between 2012 and 2016 (based on 13 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.2 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ebpayne on 1/19/2014 & rated 82 points: Not much complexity and painfully oaky. A bit hot and some harsh tannins remain. Maybe this will improve with a bit more time, but i doubt it. (1833 views) | | | Tasted by RandomCoil on 4/20/2013 & rated 89 points: A bold merlot with strawberry and cherry flavors. A bit nicer than I remember. (2055 views) | | | Tasted by RandomCoil on 1/19/2012 & rated 88 points: Bold and fruity, Ravenswood style. Dark cherries and oak. (2668 views) | | | Tasted by genghismom on 4/2/2011: On the nose, wet cement, a little organic material too, but no manure or animal, sort of forest floor in the spring. Vivacious at this point, but not without depth, dark, dried cherries dominate. There's something old world about it, vertical, not a fruit bomb. Stays around in the mouth for a while. This is a very well made wine, we predict that it will improve for a while. (3097 views) | | | Tasted by daveste on 3/1/2010 & rated 86 points: Purple and dark, color cues the big fruit and tannin of this typically Ravenswood Merlot. Promising but tough, this one was still bitter and big after a day in a corked half-empty bottle. Unless you are a fan of big wines, don't drink this one for a few years. Will it survive the tannin? Pretty good with a hamburger though! (3181 views) |
| Ravenswood Producer websiteMerlotMerlot 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma ValleySonoma County, California, is one of the most important winegrowing regions in the whole of the United States. Vines have been planted here since the 1850s and, apart from the inevitable hiatus brought about by Prohibition, the county's relationship with wine has been prolific and unbroken.
Viticulturally speaking, Sonoma County is divided into three distinct sections: Sonoma Valley, Northern Sonoma and Sonoma Coast. Each of these has its own AVA title and encompasses several sub-AVAs within its boundaries. |
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