Pride Mountain Merlot Vintner's Select Mountaintop Vineyard 2001

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Winery:

Pride Mountain Vineyards

Varietal:

Merlot

Region:

USA > California > Sonoma > Sonoma Valley

Type:

Red Wine

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Drink Dates:

Drink Now - 2016

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User Tags:  berry, bramble fruits, dessert, caramel, mineral, color descriptors, raspberry, spices, closed, liquor 

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What to Expect

Merlot has gotten a bad rap as of late but there is no denying the wine's appeal. Packed with deep, dark berry fruit and nuanced hints of cocoa, herb and earth with a soft structure. Its velvety texture makes Merlot instantly appealing and an obvious alternative to similar, more tannic Bordeaux varieties.

Winemakers Notes

In contrast to our Pride cuvees, the Vintner Select wines feature 100% varietal purity and express the concentrated ripeness that can be achieved on our mountaintop estate. The Vintner Select Merlot is usually sourced from a Clone 3 block having warm southern exposures. This wine has a personality unique to any other in our cave, with intense aromas and flavors of concentrated sweet cassis, black cherry liqueur, and licorice. Rich and deep while remaining elegant, there is enough tannic structure and framing acidity to confuse many an expert into thinking it is Cabernet. A unique and rewarding read more...tasting experience.

Truly reflecting the best of our best, each year our Vintner’s Select Merlot allows us to showcase our finest single lot of Merlot. The decision is not an easy one – our unique position at the top of Spring Mountain allows us to produce an exceptional spectrum of wines year after year after year. In 2001, as in the 1999 Vintner’s Select Merlot (94+ points from Robert Parker), this extraordinary lot comes from our Mountain Top Vineyard.

Rich, dark and luscious, with effusive ripe blackberry, currant and cassis aromas that grab you by the nose and pull you deep into the glass, this is clearly a big Cabernet drinker’s Merlot. 100% varietal, this wine has massive structure and a profound level of extract. Sweet fruit and amply chewy tannins waltz languidly across the palate with flavors of chocolate and espresso, coating the entire palate and resolving in a finish that goes on and on.    (hide)

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