Sure, this varietal has been the whipping boy for the past several years, but when an incredible Merlot like this comes along, you’ve simply got to put prejudice aside and drink this delicious wine! Dr. Thomas Kenefick fell in love with wine country some 25 years ago and subsequently bought a 125-acre property at the foothills of the Palisade Mountains in Calistoga. Initially, he nursed the vineyard to health and sold grapes to several notable Napa Valley producers including Arietta, Buccella, Etude, Lewis, Phelps, T-Vine and Plumjack's new Cade winery. In 2002 he started bottling wine under his own label.
ANTONIO GALLONI 92 POINTS - "The 2017 Merlot is a dense, potent wine that shows all of the muscle that is so typical of this site and the wines of Calistoga more broadly. Black cherry, licorice, chocolate, cloves and a range of more savory inflections all shape this deep, beautifully resonant Merlot."
ANTONIO GALLONI 92 POINTS - "The 2017 Merlot is a dense, potent wine that shows all of the muscle that is so typical of this site and the wines of Calistoga more broadly. Black cherry, licorice, chocolate, cloves and a range of more savory inflections all shape this deep, beautifully resonant Merlot."
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