Casas del Bosque CDB RESERVA Merlot Casablanca Valley Chile
Where it's from:
Chile, Aconcagua, Casablanca Valley
Price per case:
£113.33
Bottles per case:
12 x 75 cl
Style:
Soft & Supple Reds
Description:
Deep dark red colour. Complex and concentrated blackcurrant and toasted oak aromas. Powerful fruit flavours appear on the palate with balanced oaky tones. A full-structured wine with immense potential to improve and open up with bottle age. (12 x 75 cl)
Region:
Chile, Aconcagua, Casablanca Valley
Producer:
Vina Casas del Bosque
Product ID:
45914
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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Corte Vigna Merlot delle Venezie
Description: Youthful, fruity style with the typically soft, fleshy character of the Merlot grape. In a flanged bottle. (6 x 2 Litres) Price: £73.32
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Corte Vigna Merlot delle Venezie
Description: Youthful, fruity style with the typically soft, fleshy character of the Merlot grape. In a flanged bottle. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £66.41
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Tabali Reserva Merlot Limari Valley DO Chile
Description: 100% Merlot, the fruit come from the company's own vineyards located in the area of the Limarí Valley . The vineyard is over 10 years old and devoted to the Merlot grape. The harvest is picked by hand and placed in 20 Kgs cases so that none of the fruit cracks, once in the winery it is aged in French oak barrels for 12 months. After this, the wine is refined with natural egg whites and bottled with a slight filtration and it then remains in the bottle for another 6 months. This Merlot is a ruby red colour and presents a mature and intense aroma mixing plum, blackberry and cassis. On the palate it is medium-bodied with good concentration while the tannins are noticeable in their harmony with the rest of the components. It is silky and has a smooth finish. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £102.42
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Cuvee la Marouette Merlot Vin de Pays d'Oc
Description: Organic, vegetarian. Wonderful, soft ripe fruit in this highly recommended red wine. It has the delightful plummy character of good Merlot, with touches of damsons, violets and spicy fruit. A wine in the modern style, openand succulent. ". . . the tongue (12 x 75 cl) Price: £84.39
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Balnaves of Coonawarra Cabernet Merlot South Australia
Description: Red black in colour, this Cabernet Merlot is true to style with a powerful nose of ripe cassis fruit, dark chocolate and smoky oak. Rich black fruit flavours dominate the palate, dense and dark in character, followed by a big tannin backbone finishing firm and textured. This wine will improve and soften with cellaring and will open up with decanting before drinking. A significant proportion of the Cabernet Sauvignon was barrel fermented in new AP Johns American Oak. The Merlot component was fermented in small 0.5 tonne punch-down ferments. The whole blend was then matured in New and Second-fill , Americanand French Oak for 20 months prior to egg white fining and bottling. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £171.21
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Luna di Luna Merlot Cabernet delle Venezie
Description: These popular grape varieties, which originated in Bordeaux, have found a natural home in the Tre-Venezie. Cabernet provides the backbone and Merlot the juicy fleshiness of this well-balanced wine. In an eye-catching "Ferrari red" bottle. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £94.14
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J Lohr LOS OSOS Merlot Paso Robles California
Description: The 2000 vintage was truly one of great patience! Despite early bud break, true ripening came very slow due to some unseasonably warm weather during the start of the growing season and several heat spike weeks. In 2000, it was a relatively cool final month of ripening, but fortunately there was a dry late Summer, throughout September. Merlot is the earliest of our Bordeaux varieties to ripen and reached beautiful flavour and color development on the 11th of September with harvest beginning the last Merlot was picked on the 27th at an average of 25.3 degrees brix.. The release of the 2000 Los Osos Merlot marks the fourth vintage from plantings of primarily French Merlot clones #181 and #314. Unlike ther softer, less tannic Cabernet Sauvignon, where fermentation beyond dryness can be desirable, Lohr quickly have learned that daily tasting in the last few days of alcoholic fermentation and pressing just before the tannins become Gripping is key to producing concentrated, yet supple Merlot. The 2000 vintage of Los Osos Merlot is moderately dark plum-red in color with complex red fruit aromas of dried cherries, blueberry, red currant and violet with a bouquet of coffee, chocolate, roasted nuts and toast. The 2000 vintage shows concentration with ripe, soft tannins that make it drinkable now but should develop beautifully with extended bottle ageing. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £88.53
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Katnook Coonawarra Merlot South Australia
Description: Tasting Note Soft and ripe with concentrated, juicy plum and blackberry fruit spiced up by vanilla and cinnamon notes from the oak. Full-bodied and well-balanced with flavour to spare. 13.5% Wayne Stehbens and his team at Katnook are making something of a speciality of Merlot in Coonawarra. The region is already well known for its world class Cabernet, and as Bordeaux shows, where Cabernet thrives the chances are Merlot might do pretty well too. Ripe and rounded with fabulous depth of fruit and wonderfully smooth tannins this is a big, characterful wine that really shows Oz's potential for world class Merlot. A bit about Katnook Estate Although the present company was only founded in 1967, the Katnook area had been well known for grape growing since the mid-19th Century, when John Riddoch planted the first Coonawarra vines. In 1980, the arrival of winemaker Wayne Stehbens heralded a new era for Katnook when they began to bottle their own wines for the first time. Since then the company's reputation has rocketed with the wines now recognised as being among the very best in the region. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £96.67
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Kloovenburg Merlot Swartland RSA
Description: Tasting Note Warming, full-bodied red with silky plum and blackberry fruit and rich chocolaty oak. Smooth, ripe tannins on the palate cushion the fruit and provide the all important structure. Classic sun-drenched Cape Merlot. 14.5% A bit about Kloovenburg The son of a celebrated Springbok rugby player, Pieter du Toit prefers viticulture to scrumming down with seven other grown men. He made his first Shiraz in 1998 but its immediate success led him to diversify and now grows Chardonnay, Merlotand Cabernet too. Located in the shadow of Kasteelberg mountain in Swartland, the family also grow olives and Pieter’s wife Annalene is as well regarded for her oil as Pieter is for his reds. Pieter du Toit's wines are all made in a classic New World style with deep, concentrated fruit and sweet, ripe tannins. The Merlot is a big red lovers' dream come true: full-bodied and rich with an abundance of black fruit flavours crammed into the bottle (6 x 75 cl) Price: £64.31
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FranciscanMerlot Napa Valley California
Description: The Merlot is harvested from a variety of Napa Valley vineyards, including the Franciscan vineyard in the heart of the Oakville District. When tannin maturity and flavor development have reached their optimum stage the grapes are harvested. This fanaticism for ripeness is evident in the FranciscanMerlot, a wine that is plush, elegant and expresses remarkable concentrated fruit flavors with our hallmark supple tannins. Ruby red in colour with brilliant clarity and medium depth, this Merlot has deep, stone fruit aromas. Rich, lush and velvety the Merlot is showing flavours of fresh fruit, cherries, plums and blackberries that merge with light, toasty oak. Well balanced and structured, with a long finish this is a superb merlot. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £210.38
