2018 Chacotero Merlot, Central Valley, Chile

2018 Chacotero Merlot, Central Valley, Chile

Product: 20181704084
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2018 Chacotero Merlot, Central Valley, Chile

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This wine is a bin-end, discounted by 20%. Excludes BBX stock.

This wine has an attractive, plummy, smokey nose with a pleasant touch of vanilla at the back. The wine really over-delivers at this price with a herbaceous touch and a refreshing note of wet gravel, leaving the palate feeling lifted and vibrant.

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Merlot

Merlot

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.

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