Super Merlot tasting at WWWB

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
Super Merlot Tasting

1975 Chateau Trotanoy Pomerol
Price: $495.00    Your Price: $420.75
Quantity in Stock: 8

1982 Vieux Château Certan Pomerol
Price: $375.00    Your Price: $318.75
Quantity in Stock: 20

(93 points) Not yet fully mature, this wine reveals some amber at the edge as well as a complex, intoxicating nose of cedar, licorice, spice box, black currants, and cherries. While medium to full-bodied with sweet tannins, and beautiful concentration, it appears to me that more recent vintages are stronger and denser than the 1982. Nevertheless, it is a beauty that can be drunk now and over the next 15-16 years. (6/2009) Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

1982 Chateau L'Evangile Pomerol
Price: $695.00    Your Price: $590.75
Quantity in Stock: 19

(95 Points) "Dark plum-colored with purple nuances, this complex 1982 reveals notions of cedar, allspice, black raspberries, blackberries, and currants. Expansive on the palate, with superb density, low acidity, full body, and a juicy, fat, mouth-staining mid-palate, this youthful Pomerol is approaching full maturity. Powerful and concentrated, it will evolve effortlessly for another 15-20 years."  Wine Advocate # 129, June 2000

1995 Chateau L'Evangile Pomerol Magnum
Price: $495.00    Your Price: $420.75
Quantity in Stock: 5

1995 Chateau Lafleur Pomerol
Price: $815.00    Sale Price: $595.00
Quantity in Stock: 12

(93 points) This is an awesome Lafleur, but it is also an amazingly backward, tannic monster that will need more cellaring than any Medoc in this vintage. The wine boasts an opaque black/purple color, as well as a closed but promising nose that represents the essence of blackberry, raspberry, and cherry fruit. Intertwined with those aromas is the tell-tale mineral terroir of Lafleur, full body, blistering dry, astringent tannin, and a layered, weighty feel on the palate. This is the kind of young claret that I couldn't wait to rush out and buy two decades ago, but now I have to be content to admire it and wish I were twenty years younger. It is formidable, prodigious, and oh, so promising, but I cannot see it being ready to drink before the end of the second decade of the next century! Anticipated maturity: 2020-2050. Wine Advocate #115 Feb 1998

2000 Sant Elena Merlot Ros Di Rol Venezia Giulia I
Price: $45.00    Sale Price: $38.25

A Pomerol like Merlot on the nose with fine herbs, clay like minerals and plum black plum and cherry berry fruit on the nose. Big and expansive on the palate with ripe and round tannins and a host of nuances on the finish, leather, all-spice, dried herbs and fresh earth. EXCELLENT +

2002 Ramoser Merlot
Price: $45.00    Your Price: $38.25
Quantity in Stock: 12

Wine Watch Review: A pomerol like nose fresh plowed earth tobacco and fine herbs to the black plum and blackberry fruit. Big and chewy on the tongue with lots of fresh barnyard notes dried herbs and tobacco a very mineral driven finish with excellent underlying acidity. Finish 40 MOST EXCELLENT

2002 Twomey Merlot Napa
Price: $65.00    Sale Price: $50.00
Quantity in Stock: 3

Herb Rubbed Veal Carpaccio Toast Points finished with Dill Crème Fraishe and Merlot Soaked

Dried Apricots

Merlot Braised Pulled Beef & Shropshire Blue Cheese Mini Tacos

Roasted Crunchy  Chicken Salad Potato Bun Sliders with Lemon-Thyme Aioli

Wild Mushroom & Spinach Phyllo Triangles with Minted Cucumber Yoghurt

The fee for this tasting is $225 + tax, for reservations call 954-523-9463.