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Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 30/04/2015
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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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This luxury cuve from Reignacs proprietor Yves Vatelot is always 100% Merlot fermented in tiny cigar barrels for alcoholic as well as malolactic fermentation. This is a pedal-to-the-metal, super-concentrated, rich wine that showcases the best characteristics of 2012 very ripe Merlot, tiny yields, and impeccable vinification and levage. This is an amazing wine for the vintage and certainly one of superstars of 2012. Remarkably, the back label suggests this hit 15% natural alcohol, which tells you the sort of ripeness it achieved, without any of the characteristics whatsoever of overripeness like fig or prune. This is a great, great effort in this vintage and should drink well for at least a decade or more.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 30/04/2015
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