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Red plum, currants and cedar aromas with a touch of earthy goodness. This wine is medium to full-bodied and...
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The 2021 Syrah Campbell Ranch is a touch youthfully reticent from its recent bottling, taking plenty of time to...
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Twice a year, the sun crosses the celestial equator, resulting in a day and night of equal length. These occurrences...
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A brilliant crimson hue in the glass hints at this Merlot’s generous palate of rich, ripe red fruit. Notes of...
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Carisma Mendocino Sweet Syrah has a gorgeous floral aroma filled with violets and lavender, joined by flavors of...
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Sandstone and shale soils. Vines planted in 2000 at 1200 feet. 100% whole cluster and aged in neutral oak. Received...
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This varietal Merlot aged in 100% stainless steel has a fairly good layering of flavors with notes of blackberry,...
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Crushed red fruit and clay on the nose. Full-to medium-bodied with well-structured tannins. Juicy, ripe red and black...
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Aromas of redcurrants, blackberries, sliced plums and smoking tobacco. Full-bodied with fine, soft tannins. Black and...
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The 2021 Syrah is just as impressive from bottle is it was in barrel. A rush of dark plum, pomegranate and blood...
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Aroma : Just-Pickup blackberry, italian plum, lavender.
Flavor : Mulberry, violette liqueur, chai spice.
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This smooth dry red wine blend combines three varietals to create a richly colored wine wtih a distinct...
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Some lovely rounded aromas of cut plums, black tea, well-ripened red cherries and sage. Medium-to full-bodied with...
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This wine is inspired by the Italian farming tradition where grapes were planted on the poorer soils of the uplifted...
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$24.00
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$23.52
This concentrated kitchen chameleon carries our banner for California crowd-pleasers. Year after year, excellent...
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This concentrated kitchen chameleon carries our banner for California crowd-pleasers. Year after year, excellent...
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This Merlot has pleasing aromas of cherry, graham cracker and currant. Medium bodied with soft tannins, the wine’s...
Merlot Red Blend Syrah United States California Mendocino County 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.
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.
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.