Rightly considered to be one of the best producers of Merlot in the Valley, Michael Havens used the cool growing conditions of the vintage to make his best wines to date The merlot is multi layered with supple, fleshy fruit character with hints of cherries and plums coupled with spicy, well knitted wood character. (12 x 75 cl)
Region:
USA, California, Napa Valley
Producer:
Havens Wines
Product ID:
41146
Havens Wines HAVENS Merlot Napa Valley California
Description: Rightly considered to be one of the best producers of Merlot in the Valley, Michael Havens used the cool growingconditions of the 1999 vintage to make his best wines to date. The merlot is multi layered with supple, fleshy fruit character with hints of cherries and plums coupled with spicy, well knitted wood character. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £217.89
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Iona Wines Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Elgin RSA
Description: Elgin is an emerging grape growing region east of Cape Town, previously known as a hard fruit growing area , and enjoys cool climate conditions ideal for the production of wine. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £89.34
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Chateau de Ferrand Grand Cru St-Emilion
Description: Owned by Baron Bich this wine is dominated by lush Merlot fruit with ripe tannins, elegant character and very deep structure. The vineyards cover 30 hectares, with 30-years-old vines composed of the following: 75% Merlot, for fullness, roundness and persistence; 15% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon for fruitiness, structure and complexity. These growingconditions and grape varieties give Chateau de Ferrand an exceptional capacity to produce Saint-Emilion Grand Crus that express all the qualities of this prestigious terroir. Great care from the vineyard to the winery require exacting standards including natural grass and plowing between the rows to provide the best growingconditions. The yield, health and ripeness of the grapes are strictly controlled with hand pruning and leaf removal that ensure the air circulation and sun penetration needed for an optimal harvest in accordance with the standards of the appellation. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £150.50
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Chateau Sainte Michelle STIMSON ESTATE CELLARS Merlot Washington
Description: Chateau Ste. Michelle, Washington state's oldest winery are behind Stimson Estate Cellars. The wines are crafted from ripe, flavourful grapes from vineyards in the Columbia Valley in eastern Washington state. These prime eastern Washington vineyards lie at the same northerly latitude as France's renowned wine regions, as well as providing more hours of grape-maturing sunlight during the growing season than in southern vineyards. The vineyards are located between two coastal mountain ranges and provide ample protection from western Washington's cool, wet weather, yielding over 300 days of sunshine and less than ten inches of rain per year. The warm, sunny days and cool nights during the growing season create ideal conditions for producing grapes with intense aromas and flavours. Washington state is famed for its flavour-packed, award-winning Merlots, and this blend of 95% Merlot and a little Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc exhibits traditional raspberry and cherry characters with a touch of vanilla and toast on the smooth finish. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £43.97
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Angove's BEAR CROSSING Australian Cabernet Merlot Description: The wine is a deep plum red with garnet hues. The nose has loads of plum, cherry and spice aromas with hints of chocolate and smoky cedar. On the palate plums, mulberries and spicy tobacco leaf flavours are interwoven with toasty, vanillan oak. The plush velvet tan- nins of the Merlot support the fruit and give persistence of fla- vour in the mouth. This is an easy to drink wine that will marry well with food.Warm, ripe luscious fruit is the driving force behind this wine. The excellent vintage conditions of 2001 allowed full develop- ment of flavour ripeness in Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. This has been preserved in the wine by careful control of harvest and ferment conditions. After maturation, individual parcels of wine were blended to produce a medium bodied style with layers of flavour and well integrated oak support. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £85.94
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Collards Merlot Hawke's Bay NZ
Description: Collards Brothers is a family owned company dedicated to growing and producing premium wines. The original estate was founded in 1910 by an English horticulturalist, J.W. Collard. During the 1960’s further plantings of the best classical varieties then available were undertaken by Lionel Collard on the Henderson Estate. Today this vineyard grows Merlot, Malbec, Semillon and Riesling. In 1979 a second Collard vineyard was established by Bruce and Geoffrey Collard which today produces many of the top wines under the 'Rothesay' label. This site is favoured with unique conditions for viticulture with gentle slopes, high sunshine hours and warm summers moderated by Tasman sea breezes. Belonging to the new generation of New Zealand reds, this wine has been grown in the highly suitable shingly soils of the Gimblett Road district of Hawkes Bay. It has spent 12 months in American oak barriques imported from Schahinger, Adelaide and Demptos, Napa. This well made Merlot is showing ripe berry and plum fruit characters, soft tannins as well as spicy complexity. A well structured wine that is continuing to develop in bottle. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £157.23
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Veramonte Merlot Reserva Casablanca Valley Chile
Description: A native Chilean, Agustin Huneeus joined Napa Valley based Franciscan Estates in 1985 as President and CEO, bringing with him international wine experience from Chile and the United States. In 1990, after discovering promising potential vineyard property in the Casablanca Valley, Agustin Huneeus realized his dream of returning to Chile to found Veramonte. Veramonte's Casablanca Valley is surrounded by coastal mountain ranges creating a diversity of unique microclimates and terroirs. While the close proximity to the Pacific Ocean provides ideal growing and ripening conditions. A rich and spicy Merlot with some exotic touches of eucalyptus and tobacco on the palate. The six months in French and American oak barriques gives a lovely toasty edge to the typically smooth, rounded finish. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £51.84
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Windowrie THE MILL Cabernet Merlot Cowra New South Wales Australia
Description: The Mill Cabernet Merlot is an excellent example of the harmony these varietals can exhibit when blended. The colour is deep berry red and has aromas of fruit, spice and American Oak. The palate displays soft integrated oak with concentrated fruit and soft lingering finish. Growing Season The Cabernet fruit in this wine is sourced from the oldest vines on the estate. The vines are hand pruned in winter to ensure a small crop load while allowing sunlight into the canopy. The vines are then trained during the growing season with a bunch thinning occurring. The Cabernet was picked ripe in early April . The Merlot portion is also sourced from old vines trained to a Scott Henry Trellis System. Restricted Irrigation led to yield of 2.5t acre. The fruit was harvested in mid March. Winemaking The Cabernet and Merlot portions are both made separately until final blending which took place in February . The final blend contained 86% Cabernet and 14% Merlot. Both the Cabernet and Merlot were fermented in small open fermenters following crushing with the rollers open. The ferment was seeded with Bordeaux red yeast and maintained at 25-30ºC. Following ferment the wine was transferred to 2, 3 and 4 year old French and American barriques. The wine was racked every two months before final blending and bottling. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £90.15
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Chateau de Ferrand Grand Cru St-Emilion
Description: Very harmonious St-Emilion showing ripe tannins, the Chateau is owned by Baron Bich . The vineyards cover 30 hectares, with 30-years-old vines composed of the following: 75% Merlot, for fullness, roundness and persistence; 15% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon for fruitiness, structure and complexity. These growingconditions and grape varieties give Chateau de Ferrand an exceptional capacity to produce Saint-Emilion Grand Crus that express all the qualities of this prestigious terroir. Great care from the vineyard to the winery require exacting standards including natural grass and plowing between the rows to provide the best growingconditions. The yield, health and ripeness of the grapes are strictly controlled with hand pruning and leaf removal that ensure the air circulation and sun penetration needed for an optimal harvest in accordance with the standards of the appellation. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £178.74
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Gallo Family Vineyards SONOMA COUNTY Merlot California
Description: Winemaking has been a tradition in the Gallo family for almost 70 years and in developing the Ernest & Julio Gallo Sonoma wines, the winemakers have made a careful journey from vine to wine. The journey begins in Sonoma County where cool ocean breezes, lingering coastal fog and the warm sun nurture the ripening grapes. It ends with patient barrel-by-barrel tasting during fermentation and ageing to ensure that the potential tasted on the vine is captured in the bottle. Merlot is easy to like but difficult to make, because it is a wine that requires perfect balance of flavour, texture and complexity. Over the years Sonoma County Merlot has steadily gained a reputation, a direct result of the quality of its fruit. Merlot grapes thrive in an environment that, during the growing season, features an ideal combination of warm daytime temperatures and cooler conditions at night, usually with fog intrusion from the coast. Such conditions allow the grapes to mature slowly on the vines, building concentrated flavour and character in the process. When vineyards produce grapes bursting with intense varietal taste, it gives the winemakers a more varied palate to work with in the cellar and prior to fermentation, the harvest was de-stemmed but not crushed. When fewer grape skins are broken and mashed, the extraction of excessive tannin can be controlled more easily. Winemakers also employed a variety of fermentation techniques, splitting the task between upright and rotary tanks. Different methods emphasise different character traits in the wine. Finally, American and French oak ageing barrels were chosen to impart a soft, vanilla layer of complexity during the eight months this wine was aged. This vintage wins favour first with its inviting aromas of red cherry, berry and currant, laced with spicy hints of cedar. A taste reveals a palate rich in flavours of wild berry and soft notes of vanilla oak, the reward for nearly eight months of patient ageing in barrels with a medium to heavy toast. Well balanced and graceful this wine culminates in a long finish. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £71.03
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McGuigan BLACK LABEL Merlot Australia
Description: Merlot grapes from a long, cool growing season were harvested at optimum sugar and acid balance, resulting in the wine being full and soft in structure. Ideal for current consumption or short to medium term cellaring. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £75.71
