Monday, September 26, 2011

Trentadue Block 500 Merlot 2008 (California)

Merlot Alexander Valley Sonoma California.

This wine is garnet red on the pour, very nice color. On the nose very fruity with some spice and a bit of cedar. On the Palate it's fruity and lush with cherry and boysenberry, I get a bit of cigar tobacco but not everyone does. It's a nice wine much as I anticipated it would be.



Some of the characteristics you'll pick up in various Merlots include:
Fruits - plum, cherry, blackcurrant
Lightly oaked - vanilla, coconut
Heavily oaked - smoke, tar, oak
Floral - violet and rose
Spices - mint, caramel, cloves, bay leaves
Bottle age - mushroom, earth, coffee, leather, cigar

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