"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 months ago

Joe Davant

9.2

Lone pine is a great name for this vineyard because the Lagrein really delivers pine notes on the nose. Delicious and well made. — 4 years ago

Eric Jackman

9.2

Pretty bold flavor for a pinot. Less fuzzy on the tongue. Smells great. A touch of smoky heat on the clean finish. Really satisfying, overall. — 5 years ago

Jason Keefer

9.0

Zin doesn’t get much better than this! Central coast babay! — 2 years ago

with Natasha

Andrew Liguori

8.9

Fig and plum, pinch of raisin. Silky texture, some forest and baking spice. Magnum — 3 years ago

Rich Bluth

9.0

excellent SLH! great finish. — 4 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.1

Tried several bottles, all great! Founded by Cody and Marque Wright, yes that family of the great Ken Wright Pinot’s very nice small production Pinot, 1700 cases, sourced from 8 vineyards. Ruby, purple hues with aromas of blue and red fruits with an array of spices. On the palate youthful flavors of cherry and fresh strawberry, licorice notes with elegant spice. Fine tannins, long ending with fruit and tangy spice and mineral notes. Great now but a few years will bring out more of the wines complexity. — 5 years ago

Jason Keefer

9.0

Pretty rando blend of tannat, cab, petit, and zin. We’ll rounded, tannin as expected. Earth and cherry. — 3 years ago

with Natasha

Brian Koffman

9.2

Lavender, Herbacious. Paired with caccio e pepe. — 4 years ago

Jason Keefer

9.2

Cinsault the man hitter on this wine, light and refreshing, served a little chilled, great food wine, complex but not over bearing! — 4 years ago