This Chilean Merlot is everything right about Chile's best wines. It has nice hefty color of deep garnet with a twinge of purple youth and a room filling aroma of fresh berry fruit and a nose of cedar, green pepper, ripe plum, and blackberry.
Palate is delicious with a touch of licorice, bread, ripe fruit but needs to air out to really show its stuff.
With a half hour of breathing, this is a big wine that is rich with big dark fruit , plummy with bread. There are cedar notes and a cocoa layer on nicely a balanced, solid tannic structure. This is a very nice Merlot and was wonderful with my lover's home made lasagna. The wine was a gift but the price point of this wine runs anywhere from $16 on sale to $22. It is worth the $22 so raise a glass.
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