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Merlot

Merlot Wine Details
Price: $25.20 per bottle

Description: Fruit for our 2002 reserve Merlot was sourced from two old-vine vineyards (vine average age >15 years) near Lake Ontario in Niagara-on-the-Lake, harvested mid-October at 21.9 ºBrix. Fruit lots were vinified separately in small 800-kg batches, utilizing the traditional method of punch-down of the cap. Three different yeast strains were used. After a short post-ferment maceration, wines were pressed off into a mixture of French and American oak barriques. Malolactic fermentation in barrel. Aged in oak for 23 months. Of the 12 barrels that are in the final cuveé, there were six French and six American barriques; four of the barrels were new oak.




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