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Quietly powerful, dense with alluring oak spices and late-picked fruit flavors, this full-bodied, velvet-textured...
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The 2021 Red Blend Elevage is plusher and more forward, yet it shares a similar level of purity and finesse. Black...
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Lots of red and black fruits, spring flowers, candied orange, and violet notes emerge from the 2018 Red Blend High...
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98-100 This note is written before the final blend of the 2021 Continuum. Deep purple-black in color, it hits the...
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Combining mountain and valley floor fruit from the most acclaimed wine regions in Napa Valley, including Rutherford,...
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This is very four-square with a dense center palate and very fine tannins. Full-bodied and bright. Mineral and stone...
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Our proprietary blend varies a bit from vintage to vintage as we source fruit from some of the best vineyards in Napa...
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Deep purple-black color. It struts an incredible array of polished, perfumed black and red fruits - Kirsch, black...
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The 2021 Artistry red wine is taut and focused with crushed raspberry, red cherry, mocha, and crushed rock minerality...
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Savory aromas of dried mushroom and oyster shell on the nose, layered with dried blackcurrant and tobacco. It’s...
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With a hue of deep, dark garnet, this rich, beautifully extracted red wine blend offers a youthful nose of...
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The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Rubicon, which used to be a proprietary blend and had a somewhat rustic, Italian...
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The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Rubicon is a dark, exotic beauty. Dark cherry, plum, chocolate, and menthol make a strong...
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#87 in Top 100 Wines from USA, 2021. Subtle and complex red with blackberry, black truffle, sweet tobacco and...
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#87 in Top 100 Wines from USA, 2021. Subtle and complex red with blackberry, black truffle, sweet tobacco and...
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A blend that can change from vintage to vintage, the 2017 Andosol is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel....
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Meet our Y3 Taureau, an indulgent blend sourced from premium vineyards. Starting with Merlot, sourced from Dry Creek...
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A BOLD AND RUSTIC BLEND SHOWCASING THREE BRAWNY VARIETALS IN A POLISHED NAPA STYLE. PETIT VERDOT IS SOURCED FROM TWO...
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Another beautiful wine from this team, the 2019 Insignia is mostly Cabernet Sauvignon but includes smaller amounts of...
Melon de Bourgogne Muller Thurgau Red Blend United States California Napa Valley
One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.
Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.
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.
When it comes to New World wines, and especially wines from the United States of America, Napa Valley is something of a standard bearer. Over its relatively short history, it has managed to transform itself from being a fairly insignificant region, to becoming one of the most important and highly regarding wine locations on earth. With an ideal climate for viticulture, blazing sunshine and a low level of rainfall, this valley is shielded on many sides by mountain ranges which help it maintain a consistent level of heat, light and moisture throughout the year. Today, Napa Valley is a home of innovation and quality, with dozens of grape varietals thriving in the fertile soils. However, the main varietals grown there have always been Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Zinfandel, and the wines they produce are constantly lauded by critics and competitions across the globe.