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Beautiful, broad and plush, this structured but charming wine overflows with red fruits and baking spices, with a...
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A full-bodied red with redcurrants, rust and black chocolate aromas and flavors. Savory. Granular soft tannins. Very...
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Very pretty depth with a tile and rock-like texture to this. Minerally. Redcurrant. Medium to full body. Juicy...
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The wine is very aromatic with notes of mint, blueberry and black fruits. Deep flavors of black cherry are balanced...
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Clos Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon showcases the depth and exquisite complexity of the Dry Creek Valley. With layered...
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This lush and elegant Cabernet Sauvignon initially displays aromas of plum, cranberry, and black truffle, followed by...
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Black olive, currant, dark earth and bark aromas follow through to a medium to full body with medium chewy tannins...
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With deep red magenta tones, this Los Amigos Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits intense fragrant vanilla, rose, and...
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Aromas are rich and enticing with hints of strawberry, sage and baking spices. Flavors of red cherry, plum and notes...
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Our 2020 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon is rich with dark cherry, plum and baking spices. The delicious fruit is...
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This full-bodied, firmly tannic wine can be decanted and paired immediately with a grilled ribeye, or saved for...
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$61.20
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Rated 98 - Alice Warnecke Sutro brands this world-class expression as a "volcanic woman-powered vine-to-bottle wine."...
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Dense but electric in color and feeling, the 2020 Merlot is all about texture. Flavors of brambly blackberry, bay...
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The Wild Fighter Cabernet Sauvignon from the Alexander Valley in Sonoma is one of the most incredible values we have...
Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2005 2020 United States California Sonoma Valley 750ml
With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.
California's beautiful and remarkably fertile Sonoma Valley has grown over the decades to become one of the United States' most respected and profitable wine regions, with wineries within the region benefiting from the superb Californian sunshine, low rainfall and wonderfully rich soils. Because of this vital combination of excellent conditions, the region is able to grow a wide range of grape varietals for use in the production of an impressive array of wines, with many different red and white wine grapes flourishing each year and producing excellent and characterful results. The soils have been enriched by volcanic activity, and the presence of geothermal springs, which make this region a unique one, and very much the beating heart of California's ever growing wine industry.