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| Drinking window: Drink between 2014 and 2017 (based on 51 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 76.7 pts. and median of 79 pts. in 19 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by gkarlsson on 5/19/2018 & rated 84 points: We don’t often drink merlots, so this was a treat. Aroma of spice and perhaps anise and new leather; the taste is peppery but smooth with deep, dark fruit. Low in tannins. I served it with roasted pork loin au jus, roasted carrots with parmesan, and a garlicy quinoa/lentil/vegetable blend. It seemed to fit the meal well. (2285 views) | | | Tasted by Tmanis on 1/9/2016 & rated 69 points: Undrinkable (4489 views) | | | Tasted by Mike Kopanski on 5/23/2014 & rated 85 points: I'm going to a believer, and try to explain why I think this is a fairly decent Merlot. It is not fruit forward and actually a little tight. The color is almost textbook Merlot dark Magenta. The nose is very precise and expressive for an under $10 wine. We get charcoal influenced dark cherry with lanolin and flint that also is almost textbook. Medium plus bodied. Fairly weak mid palate. The fruit has a spearmint, spicy, red licorice entry to black cherry, cola, graphite and tar. There is more than a trace of vegetative green garden flavor. We decanted, but drank immediately. The flavors change by the minute as we drink down the glass. The oak on the nose does not have the same intensity on the palate. The finish is long and serious, though some may not like the metallic taste. (6302 views) | | | Tasted by TODDandBAHT on 4/18/2014: Delicious. Full bodied. (6345 views) | | | Tasted by willpluc on 11/18/2013 & rated 82 points: The wine looks Rosy colored. The legs are Fast. It smells like Petrol, and Ethanol. It tastes like and Strawberry. The body is Medium. The wine has Angular texture. The wine finishes Short. Not so great but not terrible. Sort of alcohol on the nose and angular on the palate. (7222 views) | | | Tasted by Epic Tale on 6/12/2013 & rated 65 points: color: medium purple x ruby red; nose: zero, nada -- has all the aroma of water; taste: medium-bodied mouth feel and a vague cherry taste, medium-length oaky finish; overall: a huge cheap-tasting dud which has nothing good about it and should never have been bottled or sold. Wouldn't even pass muster as economy-class airplane wine. Shame on Robert Mondavi for producing such nasty plonk! (5581 views) | | | Tasted by Robajohnson1950 on 2/8/2013 & rated 78 points: Ok. A very standard wine. Did not like the taste of this product. (3684 views) | | | Tasted by Scot Russo on 2/2/2013 & rated 70 points: Spices, bacon fat, eucalyptus, meaty.
Very little fruit, light body/acidity. meh ten bucks (2423 views) | | | Tasted by Box57 on 1/17/2013 & rated 82 points: Soft tannins, with limited acidity. Therefore acceptable as a red wine - rather than as a decent merlot (2024 views) | | | Tasted by Murali on 12/31/2012: To Jay and Abha (1670 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 Central Coasthttp://www.ccwinegrowers.org/links.html
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