Pride Mountain Vineyards Napa County Merlot 2021

New Merlot release from legendary Pride Mountain Winery.  One of the finest Merlots made in California. Limited. 93 Robert Parker: "Containing 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, the deep garnet-purple colored Pride Merlot offers up pronounced notes of plum preserves, baked blackberries and black forest cake with suggestions of baking spices, licorice and dark chocolate. Full bodied, rich and velvety textured, the palate is laden with dark fruit and spice layers, beautifully defined by a refreshing line, finishing with great persistence....This beautiful estate, which sits on the top of Spring Mountain straddling both the Napa and Sonoma County lines, continues to turn out a super-impressive lineup of wines." 91 points Connoisseur's Guide to California Wine: "Pride’s Merlot is a serious, solidly structured wine that takes a moment or two in fully opening up, but, when it does, reveals lots of deep and well-defined dark fruit lightly overlain by creamy oak and accented with subtle touches of briar and forest floor. Already fairly complex for a wine as young as it is, it exhibits fine concentration and fruity muscle without erring to sinewy toughness, but its best clearly lies ahead and it warrants a stay of three to five years in the cellar lest it be drunk up in advance of reaching its very considerable best." 59% Napa 41% Sonoma

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