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2006 Reserve Merlot

Price: $25.00

This beautiful complex reserve wine is almost a carbon copy of the 2005 it is made up of ripe dark fruit flavors of cherry and blackberry. This classic Bordeaux style merlot has appealing entry, with a jammy mid palate that continues to build as you sip, has a nice balance and structure, and it finishes with hint of friendly tannins.

This is a goes with everything red wine from your favorite pasta dish to the steak and all of the sauce you want to put on it.

A ready to drink wine but if you want it would hold in a cellar for 3 to 5 more years.
  • 2006 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 14.7% Alcohol
  • 95% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Aged in a combination of new and neutral French oak from both Allier and Nevers Forests
  • 143 cases produced

2005 Reserve Merlot

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This beautiful complex reserve wine is made up of ripe dark fruit flavors of cherry and blackberry and has interesting tar, menthol, and cedar notes. This classic Bordeaux style merlot has appealing entry, with a jammy mid palate that continues to build as you sip, has a nice balance and structure, and it finishes with hint of friendly tannins.

This is a goes with everything red wine from your favorite pasta dish to the steak and all of the sauce you want to put on it.

A ready to drink wine but if you want it would hold in a cellar for 3 to 5 more years.
  • 2005 Vintage
  • El Dorado Appellation
  • 14.1% Alcohol
  • 94% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Syrah
  • Aged in a combination of new and neutral French oak from both Allier and Nevers Forests
  • 156 cases produced

2003 Reserve Merlot

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This is another in our series of extended maceration Merlots. It was on skins for a total of 10 weeks. This process makes the wine more complex with layers of flavors and a good tannic structure. This wine has lay down potential and will improve for a year or more, it could keep for 5 or so years but who wants to wait. This wine starts with a very pleasant nose with a hint of mint, the entry burst with flavors followed by a nice complex middle with smoky overtones and the finish lingers with mocha. If you like those simple plain not so interesting merlots this is not your wine.

This is a goes with everything red wine from your favorite pasta dish to the steak and all of the sauce you want to put on it.
  • 2003 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 14.4% Alcohol
  • 98% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Aged in a combination of new and neutral French oak from both Allier and Nevers Forests
  • 177 cases produced

2002 Merlot

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This merlot has been carefully crafted from 3 different lots of merlot. Each lot was either a different clone of merlot or a different process was used in the wine making process. Meticulous effort and time was used to determine the best blend of these lots to produce a very good expression of an elegant merlot. Aged in new and used French oak for 22 months this wine has developed a smooth taste with bright fruit flavors and a lingering finish.

Pair this wine with almost any food you would drink a premium red wine with. Try it with a good steak, rack of lamb, or a well-seasoned pasta dish.

This wine is ready to drink and needs no aging. It will cellar well for a couple of years.
  • 2002 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 13.8% Alcohol
  • 100% Estate Merlot
  • Aged in a combination of new and neutral French oak from both Allier and Nevers Forests
  • 252 cases produced

2002 Reserve Merlot

Price: Sold Out

This merlot has been produced with a method call ‘Extended Maceration’; it is a process where we leave the wine in contact with the skins for an extended period that produces a more complex and better structured wine than the normal fermentation process. A complex and risky process no often used in modern wine making. It has produced an elegant merlot with dark fruit flavors, nice balance and structure and a long lingering finish. Aged in new and used French oak for 22 months

Pair this wine with almost any food you would drink a premium red wine with. Try it with a good steak, rack of lamb, or a well-seasoned pasta dish.

This wine is ready to drink and needs no aging. It will cellar well for a couple of years.
  • 2002 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 14.4% Alcohol
  • 100% Estate Merlot
  • 46 cases produced

2001 Merlot

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Our very first wine produced commercially. A light and bright merlot balanced with just the right amount of French oak.

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  • 2001 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 13.3% Alcohol
  • 100% Estate Merlot
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  • 775 cases produced