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Hogue Merlot lives up to this reputation. The aromas are earthy and toasty with black cherry, cocoa, and spice. The...
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Our Columbia Valley Merlot includes grapes from Klipsun, Ciel du Cheval, Champoux and Weinbau vineyards. The...
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I like the tar and bark undertones to the blackberry fruit. Some orange peel fragrance. It’s bright and lively with...
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Attractive nose of grilled herbs, blackberries, olives, chicory root and peppercorns. Savory and gently chewy with...
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Beautiful cassis, chocolate, leafy herbs, and earth all emerge from the 2017 Pedestal, a ripe, sexy, opulent wine...
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$57.60
Gutsy yet refined, this red balances a broad-shouldered structure with rich, multilayered flavors of blackberry and...
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Loads of black fruits, smoked game, liquid violets, and cracked pepper notes emerge from the 2018 Syrah Sequel, which...
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Overflowing with elegance and varietal purity, the 2019 Syrah Sequel offers a crystalline and focused nose with...
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$25.20
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Taut and chewy from the tannins, this Syrah reveals only hints of blackberry and licorice. Best after 2025. 1,505...
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$15.00
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Mocha, black cherries, tea leaves and dried spices on the nose. Chewy, rich and flavorful, with a full body and tasty...
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$15.84
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The fruit is more concentrated here with ripe raspberries, blueberries, blue flowers and hints of cocoa. Textural and...
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Polished and focused, with cocoa, red currant and black cherry aromas and flavors stretching across a supple...
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Balanced and expressive, with lively layers of dark plum, fresh blackberry and bold cherry aromas and flavors...
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$23.40
The Ex Umbris is deep purple in color, with inviting savory notes of pepper and grilled meats on the nose, followed...
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$16.25
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A powerful Washington State Merlot primarily from the Walla Walla AVA. Big plush textures with plenty of fruit...
Dessert Wine Merlot Syrah United States Washington State Columbia Valley
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.
Known as Syrah in most countries around the world, and Shiraz in Australia and certain other regions of the New World, this grape varietal has proven over the centuries to be one of the most powerful and flavorful red wine grapes there is. It is now one of the planet's most widely grown grapes, and is a favorite with wineries as a result of its robustness and versatility. It isn't easy to identify many characteristics of this particular varietal, due to the fact that it is highly versatile and shows significant differences in flavor and character depending on the terroir it is grown in, and the climatic conditions of the region. However, Syrah is most widely associated with full bodied, strong and loud red wines, packed full of fruity and spicy flavors, held in a beautifully deep red liquid.
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.
Since it began in the 1820s, wine-production in Washington state has gone from strength to strength, with many of the finest United States wines coming out over the past twenty years hailing from this region. Today, the state is the second largest US producer of wines, behind California, with over forty thousand acres under vine. The state itself is split into two distinct wine regions, separated by the Cascade Range, which casts an important rain shadow over much of the area. As such, the vast majority of vines are grown and cultivated in the dry, arid desert-like area in the eastern half of the state, with the western half producing less than one percent of the state's wines where it is considerably wetter. Washington state is famed for producing many of the most accessible wines of the country, with Merlot and Chardonnay varietal grapes leading the way, and much experimentation with other varietals characterizing the state's produce in the twenty-first century.