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Red
750ml
Bottle: $9.99
Red plum, currants and cedar aromas with a touch of earthy goodness. This wine is medium to full-bodied and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.44 $21.60
12 bottles: $17.10
Beautiful, broad and plush, this structured but charming wine overflows with red fruits and baking spices, with a...
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Red
375ml
Bottle: $13.22
12 bottles: $12.96
This wine impresses red wine lovers immediately with spicy aromas of cassis, black cherry, plum, vanilla, oak and...
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Red
5.0Ltr
Bottle: $19.94
Flavors of blackberry aromas and raspberry. Soft, medium-bodied wine with a smooth finish. Serve at room temperature.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.94 $18.33
12 bottles: $16.63
Merlot excels at our estate Margarita Vineyard and has been a mainstay in our small family of wines since day one....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.41 $15.17
12 bottles: $12.36
Our Apothic Merlot is a silky, approachable red wine grown in California. Notes of blackberry and boysenberry are...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.36 $13.01
12 bottles: $8.08
Our Merlot is garnet in color with flavors of black cherry on the palate. Soft and smooth.
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Red
187ml
Bottle: $6.99
Bright cherry, ripe plum, milk chocolate, red apple, and vanilla bean flavors combine for this wine’s decadent...
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90
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.87 $12.50
12 bottles: $7.60
Bright cherry, ripe plum, milk chocolate, red apple, and vanilla bean flavors combine for this wine’s decadent...
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90
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $68.93
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.44 $16.25
12 bottles: $12.35
Ripe strawberry, tea, jam, and light coffee aromas. Well- integrated oak and plum flavors make this soft and velvety...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.36 $20.40
12 bottles: $15.05
Our Sonoma County Merlot has inviting aromas of dark fruit and spice which translate well at first sip. Flavors of...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $27.93 $29.40
6 bottles: $19.20
The Beringer Founders’ Estate Merlot is immediately approachable with lush flavors of blueberry, blackberry and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.42 $15.18
12 bottles: $12.37
The Beringer Founders’ Estate Merlot is immediately approachable with lush flavors of blueberry, blackberry and...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $24.90 $26.21
6 bottles: $16.68
The Basics Ripe plum and currant flavors are immediately evident in its aromas and flavors. The Taste A sweet,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.93 $12.56
The Basics Ripe plum and currant flavors are immediately evident in its aromas and flavors. The Taste A sweet,...
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Red
3.0Ltr
Bottle: $19.49
Hints of plum, black cherry, and baking spices unfold smoothly across the palate with soft tannins and supple...
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Red
500ml
Bottle: $5.49
Hints of plum, black cherry, and baking spices unfold smoothly across the palate with soft tannins and supple...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $14.00
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $9.94
Aromatics of Bing cherries, sassafras and hints of pipe tobacco. Supple red fruits on the entry give way to touches...

Merlot United States California

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.