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Lot 410 | 2012 Napa Valley
Red Hen Ranch Merlot
Gold Medal: 2014 Denver Int'l Wine Competition; 93 Pts, Gold Medal: Critics Challenge; A dense, Napa Valley single-vineyard beauty.
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Wine Details
Opens with aromas of plum and blueberry fruit, spice, mocha, and crushed rock notes. On the palate, dark blue fruit is wrapped around a tightly wound core of dusty tannins. Fruit, earth and minerality are seamlessly meshed, leading to a long and sustained finish that only begins to hint at what’s yet to come. This is a densely packed and substantial wine that needs a good hour in a decanter, and would definitely benefit from a few years in the cellar. Fantastic with grilled steak.
- Vintage
- 2012
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Grape
- Merlot 75%, Cabernet Sauvignon 25%
- Alcohol by Volume
- 14.8%
- Cases Produced
- 1200 Cases
- Drink/hold
- Now through 2022
- Release Email
CHW Confidential
CHW Confidential
Oak Knoll is one of Napa’s best places to grow Merlot – it sits atop the valley’s largest alluvial fan formed by Dry Creek (different from the Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma), and is basically 10-20 feet of cobblestones covered by a bit of loamy soil, with late afternoon breezes keeping temperatures slightly cooler than the upper valley. The resulting Merlot berries are small and concentrated, with the resulting wines displaying a Cabernet-like structure. Fruit from Red Hen Ranch goes into some very high end Napa Merlot, Cabernet, and Meritage programs ($75+).