Merlot
£23.95
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2017 Berry Bros. & Rudd St Emilion by Ch. Simard
Red
2017
Ready, but will keep
Full Bodied
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13.0% Alcohol
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£24.95
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2018 Berry Bros. & Rudd Pomerol by Ch. Feytit-Clinet, Bordeaux
Red
2018
Ready, but will keep
Medium Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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2016 Berry Bros. & Rudd St Emilion by Ch. de Fonbel
Red
2016
Ready, but will keep
Full Bodied
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13.5% Alcohol
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£8.95
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2016 Château des Gravieres, Vignobles Thierry Labuzan, Graves, Bordeaux
Red
2016
Ready, but will keep
Medium Bodied
Dry
13.0% Alcohol
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£9.95
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2018 Domaine de Bertier, Merlot Cabernet Southern France
Red
2018
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Medium Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£13.50
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2015 Ronan by Clinet, Bordeaux
Red
2015
Ready, but will keep
Full Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£21.50
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2015 Domaine de Valmengaux, Bordeaux
Red
2015
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Full Bodied
Dry
13.0% Alcohol
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£28.50
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2011 Ch. Moulin St Georges, St Emilion
Red
2011
Ready, but will keep
Full Bodied
Dry
13.5% Alcohol
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£29.95
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2016 Ch. Soussans, Margaux, Bordeaux
Red
2016
For laying down
Medium Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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£32.50
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(150cl)
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2014 Ch. Marsau, Côtes de Francs Bordeaux
Red
2014
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Medium Bodied
Dry
13.5% Alcohol
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£32.68
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2008 La Tour du Pin, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2008
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14.5% Alcohol
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£39.00
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2017 Frog's Leap, Merlot, Rutherford, Napa Valley, California, USA
Red
2017
Ready, but will improve
Full Bodied
Dry
13.0% Alcohol
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£42.50
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2016 Ch. La Serre, St Emilion, Grand Cru Classé, Bordeaux
Red
2016
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14.5% Alcohol
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£62.00
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2016 Ch. Beau-Séjour Becot, St Emilion
Red
2016
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Full Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£67.68
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2016 Poggio Ai Merli, Castellare di Castellina, Tuscany, Italy
Red
2016
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Full Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£70.00
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2001 Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2001
Ready, but will keep
Full Bodied
Dry
13.0% Alcohol
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£72.00
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2016 Frog's Leap, Merlot, Rutherford, Napa Valley, California, USA
Red
2016
Ready, but will improve
Full Bodied
Dry
13.0% Alcohol
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£93.88
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2011 Ch. Canon, St Emilion
Red
2011
Ready, but will improve
Full Bodied
Dry
13.5% Alcohol
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£208.99
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2017 Vieux Château Certan, Pomerol, Bordeaux
Red
2017
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14.5% Alcohol
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£228.00
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£260.00
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£305.00
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2015 Vieux Château Certan, Pomerol
Red
2015
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15.0% Alcohol
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£361.39
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£395.00
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2009 Ch. Pavie, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2009
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14.5% Alcohol
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£420.40
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2017 Ch. L'Eglise-Clinet, Pomerol
Red
2017
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Dry
13.5% Alcohol
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£470.59
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£542.68
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£558.67
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£566.59
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2017 Château Ausone, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Red
2017
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12.5% Alcohol
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£622.69
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2005 Masseto, Tuscany, Italy
Red
2005
Ready, but will keep
Full Bodied
Dry
15.0% 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.