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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2022 and 2025 (based on 69 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 85.8 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Tkaneda on 4/26/2023 & rated 84 points: Strong after taste, need more time (449 views) | | | Tasted by WineytheP00h on 12/9/2022 & rated 89 points: Nice mellow dry red. Affordable and geeat to cook with. (620 views) | | | Tasted by Dagman on 7/17/2022 & rated 89 points: A nice Merlot for the money. Good fruit with tannins mostly in check although it does have a slight after-bite. Definitely better once it had a chance to breathe. (772 views) | | | Tasted by sdwineguru on 3/20/2022 & rated 89 points: Good value 2018 Robert Mondavi Winery Merlot Napa Valley ($15 on sale, COSTCO). Mid-garnet, viscous (15.0 alc.); red fruit, herbaceous, cocoa and floral nose; low-mid acids; mid tannins; good fruit; long semi-hot red fruit finish. w/beef stew. 15.5-16 UC Davis scale, 89-90 other scales. (928 views) | | | Tasted by Smithc1214 on 2/4/2022 & rated 88 points: Very good wine overall. Even better after decanting after an hour. Can lay down for a few years (967 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 12/30/2021: Ripe and round on the nose. And a little bit of a clip on the back of the palate. (876 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 11/10/2021 & rated 91 points: Plums, blackberries, and licorice, with some fresh herbs sprinkled throughout. Sultry and full bodied, displaying a youthful character that helps maintain structure, concentration, and length. Good now but it will gain nuance and complexity in the cellar. (499 views) |
| Robert Mondavi Winery Producer website
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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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