Red
Suscol Ranch Merlot
Napa Valley · Napa · United States
Fact sheet
- Type
- Red
- Grape
- Merlot
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Napa Valley · Napa
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Body
- full
- Acidity
- high
- Tannin
- high
- Sweetness
- dry
Food pairing
roast meat · lamb · aged cheeses
Rated vintages
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201090 pts
This wine is young, fruity and tannic, in the house style. The 2010 is particularly rich and ripe with cherries, but complex, intense and worth repeated sipping. A very good representation of a Suscol Merlot. Drink now–2016.
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200993 pts
Big and brawny, this is dry and hard in tannins, as Nickel & Nickel wines tend to be in youth. This one, from a cool section of southern Napa Valley, is brisk in acids, making it rather closed now. But it has a gigantic core of blackberries, with a delicious edge of dark chocola…
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200789 pts
Made in the Nickel & Nickel style, which is very dry and considerably more tannic than its peers in Napa Valley, this Merlot needs some time in the cellar to shed its astringency and let the cherries blossom. The vineyard is in a cooler, southerly part of the valley.