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Blends of Merlot, Syrah Cabernet Sauvignin & Petite Strah " 1000 Stories is a unique wine aged in new bourbon barrels...
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A well-structured and layered blend made primarily of Teroldego with Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petite Sirah and...
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This polished red wine offers aromas of cherry, red currant and tea. Flavors of cherry pie, ripe berries and plums,...
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Don’t wait till the weekend. Run Wild any day of the week with a vibrant red blend bursting with flavor. This...
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This robust red blend kicks things off with aromas of spice and cedar, leading to flavors of cola and cherry. A...
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Color: Deep Dark Midnight Purple Card with Red Hues | Nose: The nose is fruity rich with dark plum aromas | Palate:...
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Full bodied and fruity, with viscous jammy intensity, this is a gulpable red brimming in fleshy black fruit.
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Full and dense, with strong black & blue fruit notes up front from the Petite Sirah, complemented by bright red,...
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Our dark red blend opens with aromas of currant, blackberry, and toasty oak. Flavors of dark berry, caramel, and...
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Our red blend opens with aromas of chocolate-covered cherries, baking spices, and vanilla bean. Flavors of strawberry...
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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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Aromas of currants, cedar and violets follow through to a medium body and fine tannins with a lovely, light velvety...
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The 2018 Red Blend Redline is a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Syrah, 13% Zinfandel, 6% Petite Sirah and 1%...
![Aeris [By Rhys] Bricco Rosso 'Centennial Mountain' 2018 750ml](https://www.saratogawine.com/files/images/cached_thumbs/6b/6b9a515d3613a45bfbd5bbde7b0b84d9.jpg){kind=small}
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The lighter ruby-hued 2018 Bricco Rosso Centennial Mountain Vineyard offers up a pretty, Nebbiolo-like bouquet of...
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Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot. Aged for two years in our finest new French oak...
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This dark purple wine has complex aromas of black cherry, spice, plum, cassis, blueberry, oak and vanilla. This is a...
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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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Our Sweet Red is light on the palate, exploding with bright red fruit and a little spritz. FOOD PAIRINGS: Sweet...
Merlot Red Blend United States California Washington State 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.
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.