Products tagged with Merlot

Fifty percent Merlot, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Cabernet Franc with a touch of Petit Verdot has resulted in a chocolatey, ripe, round, elegant style of wine with medium body, sweet tannins, and a good finish. Drink it over the next 5-8 years.

Deep purple color. Aromas of blackcurrant, cherries, clove spice, toasted oak, and cocoa. Ripe bramble fruit entry, medium-full body, supple tannins, and sweet oak; firm acid persists in a long finish.

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot

On the nose, Château Brassac offers appealing aromatic complexity, typified by dark fruit aromas of blackcurrant and blackberry, before developing spicy notes. Fresh, concentrated and well-balanced on the palate. Lightly oaked tannins enhance the aromatic

The fruit for these wines are sourced predominantly from vineyards located across the Hawkes Bay region. An array of soil profiles combined with high sunshine hours and low rainfall makes the Hawkes Bay New Zealand’s ‘home’ to the French Bordeaux varietie

Intense ruby red. Fresh and floral bouquet with hints of quinine, violets and mimosa, followed by generous fruit sensations of blackberries, passion fruit kola and sweet mint leaves. Plush mouth feel, ripe red fruit and spicy taste. Silky tannins and well

Dark, impenetrable ruby. Upfront oak nose leaving little to the imagination. Marzipan cherry-fruit palate with fresh acidity, but the oak makes the finish a little dry. Less would have been more, but it certainly has length.

Grape variety: Merlot, Prug