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| Drinking window: Drink between 2018 and 2023 (based on 13 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.6 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by junetoaugust on 11/21/2021 & rated 93 points: 275 Cases: Opened and poured first glasses, approached after about an hour in the glass and decided against any further decant. Wine is still dense plum coloring in the middle with burnt ruby edges in the glass. Forthcoming nose of strawberry and tart raspberry with further dark ripe blueberry and blackberry jam. Secondary tobacco, vanilla, cigar drying barn and a touch of wood/cedar join the aromas as well. Fruit continues on to the palate, but starts to take a back seat to more of the cigar/tobacco with touches of toasted oak, sweet vanilla and chocolate. The fruit flavors are more mature on the palate than the nose would suggest. Texture is towards full bodied, but has a certain milkiness to have you chew on. Tannins are still ready for years ahead, but influences are nicely integrated at this point. By the end of the night the finish was getting pretty earthy with very dark chocolate taking more focus in the mixed berry jam. Wine Making Note: 25 months in 40% French, 30% Hungarian and 30% American Oak. (261 views) | | | Tasted by Wwinowillie on 12/12/2020 & rated 87 points: Burnt ruby edges
Nose: mature dark fruits, blackberry and blueberry jam, old leather, Boisenberry,
Very nice light milky body and a dry tobacco cigar finish that has a bit of spice to it with a very dark chocolate ending that leaves you kinda chewing on it. Pretty earthy, wet minerals and old toasted wood that you are left kind of chewing on.
Tannin is very much still there and not subtle at all. There is also a distinct red fruit influence like green strawberry and tart cherry at the front.
Burnt toast mixed berry jam.
This is after 40 min decant I’m gonna go hit some golf balls and see if we can get something different when it has more time to open.
Not too much different just softened the edges a bit. A little more mint.
It is a good merlot, but idk if I want it again for this price (323 views) | | | Tasted by oenophilemoose on 8/7/2018: Decanted and consumed over the next 3 hours. Still green and tight and obviously required more cellar time. Will revisit in 2021. (866 views) | | | Tasted by bigdogflow on 10/1/2013: Tasted during Napa trip 10/1/13 thru 10/3/13. Tank sample. (1378 views) |
| Delectus 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 County |
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