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- Variety Merlot
- Vintage 1970
- Brand Chateau Petrus
- Cellaring Ready, but will Keep
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Chateau Petrus 1970"The panoply of exotic aromas and flavors typically encompasses black raspberr..."$7,000.00 -
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Wine Spectator94 points
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Wine Enthusiast94 points
- Variety Merlot
- Vintage 1971
- Brand Chateau Petrus
- Cellaring Ready, but will Keep
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 13.0% Alcohol
Chateau Petrus 1971"The panoply of exotic aromas and flavors typically encompasses black raspberr..."$7,000.00 -
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- Variety Merlot
- Vintage 1997
- Brand Coldstream Hills
- Cellaring Ready, but will Keep
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 13.5% Alcohol
Coldstream Hills Reserve Yarra Valley Merlot 1997"Winemaker Notes The colour of the Coldstream Hills Merlot is bright and heal..."$34.99 -
- Variety Merlot
- Vintage 1992
- Brand Petaluma
- Cellaring Ready, but will Keep
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.0% Alcohol
Petaluma Coonawarra Merlot 1992"Petaluma, founded in 1976, crafts ultra-premium wines by carefully selecting ..."$1,099.99 -
- Variety Merlot
- Vintage 2014
- Brand Star-Lane
- Cellaring Ready, but will Keep
- Wine Type Red
- Alcohol Percentage 14.0% Alcohol
Star Lane Beechworth Merlot 2014"Made by consultant winemaker Rick Kinzbrunner, this is an awesome expression ..."$44.99
Merlot in Australia is not a variety you will often see unblended, until recently. It is most often used to add suppleness and mid-palate to Cabernet’s stern, serious structure. In Australia, Merlot is now achieving considerable recognition as a varietal wine. Merlot blended wines are available from the warmer inland regions, such as Riverina, Riverland and Murray Darling. Single varietal Merlot from the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale produces a softer dry plummy wine. Whereas the cooler climates such as the Yarra Valley and Margaret River tends to take on more savoury characters with firmer tannins.
It is the most widely planted grape in Bordeaux, France where planting has rapidly expanded throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils, is relatively simple to cultivate and is a naturally high yielding. In St Emilion and Pomerol, it withstands the moist clay-rich soils far better than Cabernet, producing opulently rich, plummy wines. Le Pin, Pétrus and Clinet are examples of some of the best (and most expensive) Merlot based wines.
Merlot is now grown in virtually all wine growing countries and is particularly successful in New Zealand, California, Chile and Northern Italy. New Zealand's Hawkes Bay is producing outstanding Merlot-based blends, especially from the Gimblett Gravels.