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2005 Reserve Merlot
Price: $25.00

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

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

2004 Nouveau
Price: Sold Out

A merlot wine made in the style of the French Nouveaus. A more serious wine than most French versions this wine has a fresh fruity entry, nice middle palette and a creamy finish.

Pair this wine with almost any food you would drink a premium red wine with. It drinks well by itself, with appetizers, or with lighter food dishes.

Not made in a style for aging this wine is ready to drink and will go with a wide range of foods. This would make a great by the glass wine.
  • 2004 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 13.8% Alcohol
  • 2004 Estate Merlot
  • Partial whole cluster fermentation
  • Neutral Oak
  • 151 cases produced

2005 Suzette
Price: Sold Out

This fruity dry Rosé is a blend of Zinfandel and Merlot, just slightly sweet but not like a white Zin. Left on the skins a little longer than previous vintages it has a nice deep rose color.

A French style Rosé, this wine was barrel fermented; lees aged, and bottled young to preserve its great fresh fruity nose. It starts with a nose of tropical fruits and floral aromas, followed by flavors of strawberry and ripe raspberries; it has a nice clean finish.
This is a great wine for appetizers, light meals, or just to enjoy on a warm summer day. Try it with a salad of fresh greens and goat cheese, sushi, a plate of mussels and clams, or your favorite hors d’Oeuvres. Serve slightly chilled.

This interesting wine is a club release only.
  • 2005 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 13.6% Alcohol
  • 56% 2005 Estate Merlot and 44% Zinfandel
  • 21 cases produced

2004 Merlot Rosé
Price: Sold Out

A French style Rosé, this wine was barrel fermented; lees aged, and bottled young to preserve its great fresh fruity nose. It starts with a nose of tropical fruits and floral aromas, followed by flavors of bright cherry and ripe raspberries; it has a nice lingering creamy finish.

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

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

2003 Nouveau
Price: Sold Out

This interesting wine was made from 100% Merlot grapes using a modified version of a process call ‘Carbonic Maceration’. Our process uses a method of fermenting the half of the grapes as whole berries and remainder as normal crushed grapes. We only fermented on the ‘skins’ for about half of the fermentation and then pressed and completed the fermentation in neutral barrels. The result was a fruity well balanced wine with a creamy smooth finish.

Pair this wine with almost any food you would drink a premium red wine with. It drinks well by itself, with appetizers, or with lighter food dishes.

Not made in a style for aging this wine is ready to drink and will go with a wide range of foods. This would make a great by the glass wine.
  • 2003 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 14.5% Alcohol
  • 100% Merlot grapes
  • 98 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

2002 Merlot Rosé
Price: Sold Out

A French style Rosé, this wine was barrel fermented; lees aged, and bottled young to preserve its great fresh fruity nose. It starts with a nose of tropical fruits and floral aromas, followed by flavors of bright cherry and ripe raspberries; it has a nice lingering creamy finish.

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.
  • 2002 Vintage
  • Fair Play Appellation
  • 12.8% Alcohol
  • 100% Merlot grapes
  • 252 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