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Stag's Hollow Renaissance Merlot Stag's Hollow Vineyard 2014
Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaThe first vintage of Renaissance Merlot under a screwcap offers immediate benefits on the nose, sharpening the fruit and spice. To further charge the wine approximately 50 percent of the berries were left whole and uncrushed yielding a fresh, juicy momentum upfront. There’s 100 percent French oak used of which half is new, but you don’t feel it. The blend is a 90/10 mix of merlot and cabernet sauvignon, the attack round and the tannins mostly chalky. The flavours are dominated by intense cherries with a warm, savoury, clove undercurrent. Best to hold this until 2020 but if you must drink it now may we suggest roasted meats.Tasted: 11 November 2016Tasted by: Anthony GismondiPrices:| BC | $34.99 | 750ml | winery direct and private wine shops |
Grape: MerlotCSPC: 540757UPC: 626990025962
