Six Napa Valley Merlots, 2011, '12, '13
Napa Valley is best known for its wines based on the cabernet sauvignon grape, exceeded in reputation only, if not actually, by Bordeaux. The merlot grape often lives in the shadow of cabernet sauvignon, used to add "flesh and roundness," as Michael Broadbent says, to cabernet wines. Merlot, however, can make superb wine on its own or when used in the m…
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