2010 Merlot, De Gras
(6x75cl)
| Product Code: | 32536110 |
| Description: | 2010 Merlot, De Gras |
| Case Size: | 6x75cl |
| Producer: | De Gras, Vina MontGras |
| Region: | Colchagua Valley |
| Country: | Chile |
| Alc. By Vol.: | 13 |
Grape Varieties
| 100% | Merlot |
Food Matching Note:
Lamb chops with coarse-grain mustard and red-tomato chutney, grilled lamb kebabs with cumin and cinnamon, or a duck salad with cheese toasts and port-currant sauce.
Tasting Note:
Intense, deep red in colour with an explosively fruity, varietal nose of ripe plums with fresh mint notes. The palate is mouth filling, with ripe raspberries and blackcurrants on the palate. Shows a firm structure, with good depth and soft tannins, a distinctly Chilean style.
Detailed Tasting Note:
Colour:
Intense red.
Nose:
Explosively fruity, varietal nose with fresh mint notes.
Palate:
Mouth filling ripe raspberries and black currents on the palate. Fruitful with good depth and soft tannins, distinctly Chilean.
Grape:
Made from the Merlot grape and derived from the French for Blackbird: 'Merle'.
Location:
From the heart of the Colchagua Valley in Chile.
Flavour:
Full bodied with lots of generous ripe blackberry and plum fruit and oak spice.
USP:
Due to the mix of soil, the Colchagua has become famed for its high quality Merlot.
Combined:
With ripe dark fruit and a subtle spice this is a great example for why the Colchagua Valley is famed for its Merlot based wines.
Vinification Note:
After destemming and crushing the grapes were fermented at temperatures between 25 and 28ยบ C with skin contact for 15 days. During fermentation, pumping over was performed daily to extract the fine varietal tannins and colour. 17% of the wine was aged for 10 months in American oak barrels to add complexity to this fruit driven varietal.