Light, fresh and friendly – all the things that anoraks think a red wine shouldn’t be, Merlot has been branded as the ‘feminine’ wine; but is that a bad thing? In this case we reckon not, pop the cork and smell the berries, and we think you’ll agree!
Tasting Notes : Grapes were crushed into stainless steel tanks and fermentation started almost immediately after inoculating the juice with a yeast. Fermented at 24-26°C on the skins, with a small amount of French oak chips included, to extract good colour and enough tannins. The wine underwent malolactic fermentation.
An easy-drinking wine, delightful on its own, good choice with a variety of meat dishes, pasta and turkey.
Read what our customers are saying : He was about to smother the lamb with Wine4Us Merlot. Sacrilege! I sneaked my bottle of plonk up to the braai and did the switcheroo. The lamb will never know the difference and my evening just got a whole lot more interesting!
(Patrick Humphreys, Cape Town)
Merlot is one of my favourite cultivars, it often gets a bad rap for being too light, but this one has plenty of fruit to back it up. Sweet, juicy red berries – yum!
(Erica Liebenberg, Somerset West)
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