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Tasting Notes

Matanzas Creek 1995 Merlot

Matanzas Creek Winery
6097 Bennett Valley Rd.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Vintage: 1995
Variety: Merlot
Appellation: Sonoma Valley
Price: $40
Rating: 93
 
  

Anthony Dias Blue Tasting Notes:

A beautiful wine that is chocolatey; fresh and fruity with soft, lush, creamy flavors. It finishes with gorgeous oak and spice.
 

Winery Notes:

Merlot has been part of the Matanzas Creek portfolio since 1978, and, through consistent refinement and maturation, has come to challenge Chardonnay as the winery's most coveted wine. Time and again, critics in America and abroad have called it America's finest, and it continues to win medals in international wine competitions against the great wines of the world.

Matanzas Creek's ten acres of estate vineyard, planted to an exceptional clone of Merlot, represent the heart of Matanzas Creek's Merlot wines. Combined with an additional 1.5 acres planted to Cabernet Sauvignon (used in the blending of Matanzas Creek's Merlot wines), this acreage consistently produces fruit of outstanding quality.

The ultimate goal of the Matanzas Creek Merlot program is to consistently produce rich, opulent, full-bodied Merlot wines, that are both age-worthy and replete with supple tannins. In its youth, Matanzas Creek Merlot bursts with intense fruit characteristics, yet maintains a soft and approachable tannin structure. As it ages, secondary characteristics of chocolate, tobacco, spice and vanilla surface, coalescing in a complex, well-rounded wine that can be enjoyed for up to fifteen years.

 

This wine is available through America's Wine Clubs
in partnership with GourmetMarket.com.

 
 

Tasting Notes—December 1998
 
 


 
 
This page created December 1998

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