Merlot
£22.46
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2020 Château Anthonic, Moulis-En-Médoc, Bordeaux
Red
2020
Ready - at best
Medium Bodied
Dry
13.0% Alcohol
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£26.00
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2019 La Dame de Onze Heures, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2019
Ready - youthful
Full Bodied
Dry
13.5% Alcohol
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£35.50
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2018 Croix Canon, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2018
Ready - youthful
Full Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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£44.00
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2020 Tzingana, Monte Bernardi, Tuscany, Italy
Red
2020
Not ready
Full Bodied
Dry
13.5% Alcohol
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£69.00
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2022 Château Nenin, Pomerol, Bordeaux
Red
2022
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Full Bodied
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14.0% Alcohol
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£75.00
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2016 Château La Gaffelière, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2016
Ready - youthful
Full Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£93.50
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2020 Château Quintus, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2020
Not ready
Full Bodied
Dry
15.5% Alcohol
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£109.00
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2020 Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2020
Not ready
Full Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£163.00
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(150cl)
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2019 Galatrona, Val d’Arno di Sopra, Petrolo, Tuscany, Italy
Red
2019
Ready - youthful
Full Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£277.00
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2021 Vieux Château Certan, Pomerol, Bordeaux
Red
2021
Not ready
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13.5% Alcohol
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£303.00
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£391.00
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2018 Château la Conseillante, Pomerol, Bordeaux
Red
2018
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Full Bodied
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14.5% Alcohol
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£566.00
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2021 Château Pavie, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2021
Not ready
Full Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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£741.50
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2015 Château Ausone, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2015
Not ready
Full Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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£1,387.50
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2018 Redigaffi 7, Tua Rita, Tuscany, Italy
Red
2018
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Full Bodied
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15.0% Alcohol
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£1,507.00
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2013 Redigaffi 7, Tua Rita, Tuscany, Italy
Red
2013
Ready - youthful
Full Bodied
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14.5% Alcohol
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£1,645.50
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2020 Château l'Evangile, Pomerol, Bordeaux
Red
2020
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Full Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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£2,764.00
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£3,073.00
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£3,507.50
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Ex-Chateau
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£3,543.50
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£3,567.50
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£3,731.00
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2018 Château Ausone, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2018
Not ready
Full Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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£4,684.00
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£4,804.00
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£4,938.00
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Ex-Chateau
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£5,416.00
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£5,523.50
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Available in bond
2016 Château l'Eglise-Clinet, Pomerol, Bordeaux
Red
2016
Ready - youthful
Full Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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2016 Château Pavie, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2016
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Full Bodied
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14.5% Alcohol
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The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
In St.Emilion and Pomerol it withstands the moist clay rich soils far better than Cabernet grapes, and at it best produces opulently rich, plummy clarets with succulent fruitcake-like nuances. Le Pin, Pétrus and Clinet are examples of hedonistically rich Merlot wines at their very best. It also plays a key supporting role in filling out the middle palate of the Cabernet-dominated wines of the Médoc and Graves.
Merlot is now grown in virtually all wine growing countries and is particularly successful in California, Chile and Northern Italy.