Merlot
Max Lalondrelle, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£23.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl 38cs
Max Lalondrelle, Wine Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd
Bottle
£25.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl 125cs
This fleshy, fruit-driven red is loaded with plummy, blackberry fruit. The palate is very juicy with more ripe blackberries and a soft but moreish finish. The tannins are very fine and the acidity is in balance with everything else, making this a very easy-drinking wine, perfect for a glass or two over lunch. Drink now to 2020.
Bottle
£10.95
Bottle
£12.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 38cs
Oliver Barton, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£13.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl 4cs
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (July 2019)
Bottle
£13.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl 37cs
Bottle
£16.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl 4cs
Bottle
£27.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 11cs
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 8cs
Bottle
£228.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 6cs
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 21cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Adam Bilbey - Sales Director
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 27cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Case price (Bottle 12 x 75cl)
Bottle 12 x 75cl 4cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 11cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
Nicholas Pegna, Berrys’ Asia
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Case price (Bottle 12 x 75cl)
Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
Blend: 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc
Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Precise dark fruits, rich, juicy blackcurrants and blackberries combine with a healthy dollop of cream. Very tasty. The spiciness on the finish is incredibly well received. With a crunchy mouth-feel, the wine’s concentration is certainly attractive.
Blend: 62% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Franc
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Drink: 2023-2040
James Lawther MW - decanter.com - April 2016
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Drink: 2023-2045
James Lawther MW - decanter.com
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Magnum 3 x 150cl 1cs
Real acidity provides freshness and a lovely texture. It is really polished. An underlying core of some depth, but the wine is very light in its feet. Very clean and precise, it is soft, light and beautifully spicy. There is so much complexity on the palate, yet the flavours are so refined. The wine has real length, but everything is understated and elegant.
Blend: 80% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc, 1% Cabernet Sauvignon
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Mark Pardoe MW, Wine Buying Director
The intelligent, fascinating and hugely talented Alexandre Thienpont has made a wine that perfectly reflects his personality in 2005. This is the Grand Cru Burgundy of Bordeaux. It is simply in a different class, even in such an exalted vintage as 2005. The nose is heavenly: very Merlot with orange hints to the fragrant aromatic red fruit. The palate then takes you to another dimension with its incredibly pure, silky, intense raspberry fruit supported by firm but very fine tannins. Roll out the red carpet for this one.
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.