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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2010 and 2013 (based on 51 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 83.4 pts. and median of 85 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by lbatina on 1/27/2013 & rated 85 points: The wine looks Garnet colored. The legs are Fast. It smells like Dust, Black currant (cassis), and Black Pepper. The body is Light. The wine has Flabby texture. The wine finishes Short. 13.5% California Merlot
OK. May have waited too long to drink it.
Drank with Split Pea soup (2798 views) | | | Tasted by nickmotown on 11/20/2010 & rated 85 points: The nose is indicative of the body. This is medium-bodied with flavours of with berry and spice coming through (evidence of good oak barrels?). The tannins are larger than expected. The wine has a medium finish. (2582 views) | | | Tasted by Lunabeso on 8/29/2010 & rated 91 points: Nice balance. Somewhat bold for Merlot but not too much tannin (3379 views) | | | Tasted by WAWINEFAN on 6/3/2010 & rated 85 points: Nothing special (3396 views) | | | Tasted by sammy on 10/2/2009 & rated 86 points: Much better the second day after opening. After breathing a while, the fruit flavor came out and added a light sweetness. (3693 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
http://www.discovercaliforniawines.com/regional-wine-organizations/
http://beveragetradenetwork.com/en/btn-academy/list-of-winegrowers-association-in-central-coast-california-274.htm
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