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| Drinking window: Drink between 2016 and 2022 (based on 5 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.1 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tominasia on 8/27/2020 & rated 91 points: Wonderful. Strong aromas of ripe dark fruit on opening. Rich, intense and smooth to taste. I did not decant but tanins were soft and flavors well integrated. Hints of smoke and spice with a long finish to enjoy. Will likely evolve further over the next couple of years but thoroughly enjoyable now. (450 views) | | | Tasted by nickgorski on 4/2/2019 flawed bottle: Yech. Seemed like a tight merlot on the nose, but really yucky flaw of some sort. Extremely bitter but didn't seem like acetic acid. Can't get the finish out of my mouth even after a meal and rinsing well. Unfortunate. (1228 views) | | | Tasted by Bakerbd on 12/5/2016 & rated 91 points: Cassis, plum, spice box. Maybe I've been unfairly biased against CA merlot? This is pretty solid (2698 views) | | | Tasted by cwiebe on 7/2/2016 & rated 90 points: Wasn't sure what to make of this on first opening. Seemed really astringent and it was very tight, but some flavors that seemed more tertiary in nature. After quite a few hours open, the wine has evolved into very much a left bank tasting sort of wine. Tar and licorice nose. (2984 views) | | | Tasted by jigones on 6/28/2016 & rated 89 points: Takes a few hours to open up, but then some fruit comes out. Better to wait a few years to open up the next bottle. (2997 views) |
| Jemrose 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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