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2019 Chateau Ste. Michelle Merlot
4/25/2024 - Pontifax Likes this wine: 89 Points
After last week's Cabernet....now the Merlot.
On nose: raspberries, toasted french bread and light roast coffee.
On palate: all above flavours well noted, and displayed on a sleek medium body, with muted tannins, vanilla/ oak, and a ghost of cinnamon.....popped& poured, with no decant.....pleasant food wine, with a civilized 13.5% alcohol....went well with pulled pork, roast potatoes and a carrot/ broccoli medley, for dinner.
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2014 Seven Stones Winery Merlot Speaking Rock Row 128
4/22/2024 - Pontifax Likes this wine: 91 Points
Found an orphan bottle of this at my wine merchant..
On nose and palate: all notes from June 2023 happily repeated....coffee, ripe berries, tobacco....fine New World Merlot.
If anything this seems to have more staying power than the 2016 vintage, the tannins seem firmer.
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2019 Starmont Chardonnay
4/20/2024 - Pontifax wrote: 91 Points
Very similar to the 2017 vintage tasted and reviewed 3 years ago.
On nose: red apple, nectarine and toasted French bread.
On palate: all above flavour notes focused and enhanced, with clean minerality, a touch of flint, lemon curd, and apricot pit....all displayed on a firm, elegant medium body, with a ghost of vanilla/ oak.....chanelling Old World Chablis.....excellent wine with salmon or roast chicken.....can age for a few more years, without effort.
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