Merlot Spring Mountain District

This Merlot comes from higher elevations on Spring Mountain. It is picked in the dark hours of the morning to ensure it arrives cool and undamaged. The Merlot spent 20/22 days on its skins to extract the soft tannins and flavor completely. The wine spent 22 months in French cooperage of which 65% was new and 35% a range of 2–4-year-old.

Spring Mountain Merlot is a very bright and fruit driven wine. The nose is bursting with black cherries and blueberry pie as well as cinnamon toast and caramel. There is some pleasant underpinning eucalyptus and gravel minerality. As always with this wine the mouth is full and rich. The tannins are that perfect level of chalkiness to go with the richness of the wine.