Short finish with fine grained tannins and tangy cranberries.
This 11-year-old Merlot from Bordeaux is a little unbalanced, but drinkable nonetheless. Elegant and complex, but lost some of its fruits by now.
Good right out of the bottle, and better after an hour of airtime.
I had this vintage 2 years ago and it is drinking a little better now.
A good food wine that I paired with pizza.
100% Merlot grapes from 70 year old vines, were aged in French oak barrels (70% new). A small production of only 9,000 bottles.
13% alcohol by volume.
89 points.
$35 (current vintage).
brunello1997
“And I’m not drinking and fu$king Merlot!”
Sideways quotes aside, one of my wine rules is:
Any St Emilion Grand Cru under $35 is an immediate buy.
Cheers
racist-crypto-bro
I had Lagrein which I consider spiritually Merlot.
foreverfabfour
It’s always amazed me how many people listened to a satirical quote in a movie for life advice. At the wine bar I work at, if someone says they don’t like Merlot, we always ask them why. Id guess 75% of people quote the movie. I often pour a small glass of it for them to have without telling them what it is. 100% of the time, they love. Changing minds one glass at a time.
But it doesn’t bother me too much if it isn’t “cool”… more affordable merlot for those of us who know 🙂↕️
P.S. – LOVE St. Emilion.
Son_of_a_Bacchus
20 years after that damn movie and I still get people coming in and saying shit like, “I like Cab, I like Pinot. I don’t like Merlot.” (Which quite honestly, still breaks my brain a bit)
I was working as a waiter when it came out and yes, it was the wine people ordered before their butt hit the seat so the joke actually made sense (even more so with the final bottle in the movie). Now people will drink the most Frankenstein’s monster version of a Pinot imaginable. It’s really fascinating that nothing has broken them of this after 20 years.
Anyway, was the best thing to happen to Merlot. QPR is usually through the roof.
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Chateau Haut Cardinal Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2014, Bordeaux
Deep ruby in color with a reddish/ brick rim.
Medium plus in body with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate with nice complexity.
Showing currants, plums, cooked cherries, spices, oak, licorice, chocolates, tobacco, herbs, earth and light vegetables.
Short finish with fine grained tannins and tangy cranberries.
This 11-year-old Merlot from Bordeaux is a little unbalanced, but drinkable nonetheless. Elegant and complex, but lost some of its fruits by now.
Good right out of the bottle, and better after an hour of airtime.
I had this vintage 2 years ago and it is drinking a little better now.
A good food wine that I paired with pizza.
100% Merlot grapes from 70 year old vines, were aged in French oak barrels (70% new). A small production of only 9,000 bottles.
13% alcohol by volume.
89 points.
$35 (current vintage).
“And I’m not drinking and fu$king Merlot!”
Sideways quotes aside, one of my wine rules is:
Any St Emilion Grand Cru under $35 is an immediate buy.
Cheers
I had Lagrein which I consider spiritually Merlot.
It’s always amazed me how many people listened to a satirical quote in a movie for life advice. At the wine bar I work at, if someone says they don’t like Merlot, we always ask them why. Id guess 75% of people quote the movie. I often pour a small glass of it for them to have without telling them what it is. 100% of the time, they love. Changing minds one glass at a time.
But it doesn’t bother me too much if it isn’t “cool”… more affordable merlot for those of us who know 🙂↕️
P.S. – LOVE St. Emilion.
20 years after that damn movie and I still get people coming in and saying shit like, “I like Cab, I like Pinot. I don’t like Merlot.” (Which quite honestly, still breaks my brain a bit)
I was working as a waiter when it came out and yes, it was the wine people ordered before their butt hit the seat so the joke actually made sense (even more so with the final bottle in the movie). Now people will drink the most Frankenstein’s monster version of a Pinot imaginable. It’s really fascinating that nothing has broken them of this after 20 years.
Anyway, was the best thing to happen to Merlot. QPR is usually through the roof.