Merryvale Red Blend Profile 2000
Merryvale Red Blend Profile (2000)
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- Merryvale Vineyards More from this winery Are we missing a vintage?
- Region:
- USA » California » Napa
- Varietal:
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Type:
- Red Wine
- Drink Dates:
- 2003 - 2015
Winemakers Notes
Profile Napa Valley Red Wine 14.5% 1 bottle 10/9/06
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Reviews for 2000 Vintage
Deep and rich, with concentrated blackberry and dried currant fruit, along with generous earth, tobacco and smoky oak accents. Focused finish. Ready to drink now and over the next four or five years.
This wine was aged in mostly new French oak chateau barrels and was bottled unfiltered. A blend of our best lots of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, it is opulently structured and very dark. (Steve Test, director of winemaking)
Rating: 92/100 - As reviewed by Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wines on Dec-06.
Rating: 86/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator.
Rating: 89/100 - As reviewed by Wine.com.
Rating: 90/100 - As reviewed by Wine & Spirits Magazine.
Rating: 86/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator on 11/15/03.
Profile is a blend of our best lots of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, chosen for their concentration, depth of flavor and fine tannin structure. This wine was aged in new French oak chateau barrels and bottled unfiltered. It is very dark and opulently structured -- characteristic of this very ripe vintage. In its youth the wine is loaded with flavors reminiscent of dark berries, plums and black cherries, with fragrant notes of vanilla and spice. The wine's mouthfeel is rich, round and seamless.
'Profile' is the pinnacle of Merryvale's distinguished Napa Valley red wine portfolio. Acclaimed winemaker Steve Test pulls out all the stops for this sumptuous wine, employing native yeast fermentation, extended time on the skins, 18 months or more in new, top of the line French oak chateau barrels from traditional Bordeaux coopers, and painstaking quarterly racking before bottling the wine unfiltered. Test demands 'pedal to the metal intensity' when selecting each individual Bordeaux varietal lot for Profile. 'By intensity, I mean deep color and brooding, dark flavors such as roasted coffee - bold and powerful bass notes. The wine's balance comes from the silky, supple tannins derived from ripe grapes and careful finishing.' Chanting the mantra, 'rich, round, fat and supple,' he extracts the very best of each vintage for this creme de la creme. 1998 Profile is a blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc with grapes from such superstar vineyards as Beckstoffer - Georges III, Poe, Showket, Slawson and Thorevilos. The wine was rated 96 points by Wine Enthusiast, the first American wine on its prestigious 'Best Wines of 2001' list, and garnered an impressive 92 point / '2 puff' rating in the Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine.
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