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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.1 pts. and median of 85 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by aveeck on 4/24/2011 & rated 92 points: Wonderfully aged merlot, showing what this can be at its height. (3765 views) | | | Tasted by grippo24 on 4/10/2011 & rated 83 points: Bloody meat, short finish leaves nothing to think about almost very rough at first high acidity (4218 views) | | | Tasted by jrcambra on 12/27/2009 & rated 84 points: truly a simple wine, nothing much to describe. (4415 views) | | | Tasted by stercomm on 12/15/2007 & rated 86 points: This wine is not bad, has opned up a lot on day 2 get a lot more spice, fruit and smokey oak. Not a very complex wine, with most of the fruit being somewhat subdued. (4760 views) | | | Tasted by BeccaD on 4/1/2007 & rated 92 points: Fantastic. (3682 views) | | | Tasted by wpl on 6/18/2006 & rated 85 points: Prunes and white pepper. The wine was in balance, but lacked complexity. Overall a nice bottle for spicy meal. (3024 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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