Red

Ballentine Pocai Vineyard Merlot (Napa Valley)

Ballentine

Napa Valley · Napa · United States

Ficha técnica

Tipo
Red
Uva
Merlot
País
United States
Região
Napa Valley · Napa
Denominação
Napa Valley
Corpo
full
Acidez
medium
Tanino
medium
Doçura
dry

Harmonização

carne assada · cordeiro · massas com molho vermelho · queijos maturados

Safras avaliadas

  • 201090 pts

    This red wine might just make you purr with satisfaction. It delivers everything you want in a Merlot. It's dry, but soft, with plush tannins and rich flavors ranging from red cherries and currants to cocoa, violets and cedar.

  • 200886 pts

    Tough and gritty for a Merlot, with sweet and sour cherry and blackberry flavors wrapped into stringy tannins. With its briary, peppery finish, it could almost be a Zinfandel.

  • 200487 pts

    An interesting Merlot that shows a huge improvement over the '02 and '03, possibly because the vintage was warmer and the fruit got ripe. The winery still has work to do on this bottling, but the '04 is tannic and rich, and shows the blackberry, currant and cedar flavors you wan…