Merlot Wine Club
May 13, 2009 by admin
Filed under Merlot, Wine Clubs
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Source of the rare and precious Pomerol (and St. Emilion) in Bordeaux, along with a lot of nondescript soft reds from California and sometimes from Australia. Occasionally interesting as an Italian, from Tuscany, Friuli and elsewhere.
Merlot wine is much loved by many wine drinkers due to its rich, soft, berry profile which is richer and subtler than the harsher and more acidic profile of Cabernet Sauvignon with which is often found blended. Merlot wines are drinkable from early on but they can also be matured in the bottle for decades, this makes it an extremely popular wine club selection.
Merlot is grown all around the world and is known by several names such as Picard, Langon, Petit Merle, Vitraille, Crabutet Noir and Bigney. The designation Chilean Merlot however means that the wine contains Merlot grapes, Merlot and Carménère grapes or just Carménère grapes. This is due to the fact that some Chilean winemakers decided to have their vines identified after the Chilean debacle of miss identifying Sauvignoasse vines as Sauvignon Blanc wines. This brought to the fore the fact that many vineyards had actually been planted with Merlot vines, Carménère vines or a mixture of the two. The mistake was a fairly easy one to have been made as the vines, leaves and grapes are very similar however the taste and properties of the wines that the grapes produce are very different.
