"Odedi"

8.9

It is time for some Merlot on this #MerlotThursday. Let's bring Merlot back!

Deep ruby in color with a reddish/ brick rim.

Medium plus in body with medium acidity.

Dry on the palate with nice complexity.

Showing currants, plums, cooked cherries, spices, oak, licorice, chocolates, tobacco, herbs, earth and light vegetables.

Short finish with fine grained tannins and tangy cranberries.

This 11-year-old Merlot from Bordeaux is a little unbalanced, but drinkable nonetheless. Elegant and complex, but lost some of its fruits by now.

Good right out of the bottle, and better after an hour of airtime.

I had this vintage 2 years ago and it is drinking a little better now.

A good food wine that I paired with pizza.

100% Merlot grapes from 70 year old vines, were aged in French oak barrels (70% new). A small production of only 9,000 bottles.

13% alcohol by volume.

89 points.

$35 (current vintage). — 10 days ago

Severn Goodwin

9.3

2017 | Pinot Noir
Bow & Arrow; Hughes Hollow Vineyard
Willamette Valley, OR, USA — 2 years ago

Raul Puga

9.2

Delicious. Amazing aromatics. — 3 years ago

Austin Moberg

9.0

Went great with thanksgiving dinner — 3 months ago

Jason Phillips

9.1

I prefer reds over whites, but this chardonnay is very creamy and smooth. Well balanced and refreshing. — 5 months ago

Kimberly Drake Rebchook

8.9

Tastes even better after it breathes. Robust, hearty grape taste. Nice tannins. No lingering aftertaste. Smooth mature wine with a pleasant finish. — 3 years ago

Rich Bluth

9.0

drinking beautifully, a bit more power than the Diamond T we tasted side by side (from the same vintage) — 5 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.3

2021 vintage. First tasted this wine with the 1991 vintage when it was resto cost $240 a 12-pack case (which was pretty pricey for CA chard at the time). FF three decades where I'm pouring this btg and paying less than the 1991 pricing. Has always held a soft spot in my heart. Unique flavor profile that consistently upends a blind white Burgundy tasting as a ringer-regardless of the price range involved...and it do get pricey these daze. Still bringing the serious mineral hammer along with bracing acidity but a bit of lanolin and variety of citrus when things warm up a tad. Last tasted 5.5.23 (9.1). 10.27.24. — 4 months ago

Amber Bremer

9.0

Good with dessert :) — 6 months ago

Jean ASmith

9.2

One of the best Virginia cab francs I’ve had. — 3 years ago