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A family-owned Napa Valley winery dedicated to the passion of winemaking - crafting fine wines that rival the best in the world. Merryvale has the privilege of selecting the highest quality grapes from many outstanding Napa Valley vineyards. | St. Helena, CA Phone: (707)963-7777 Website: http://www.merryvale.com Appellation: St. Helena Tasting Room: Open 10am to 6:30pm everyday, our inviting cellar is graced with a European fountain and formal gardens. Map to Merryvale Vineyards
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Sauvignon Blanc
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2006 Merryvale Sauvignon Blanc Starmont Napa Valley
Our Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from several distinct growing regions within the Napa Valley, including Oak Knoll, Rutherford, and Oakville, each contributing a different expression ... more of the varietal. This wine was fermented slowly at cool temperatures (50° to 58°F), in a combination of French oak (70% of the blend; only 5% new) and stainless steel tanks (30%). Our intent is to preserve and enhance the delicate varietal nuances.
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Chardonnay
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2005 Starmont Chardonnay Napa Valley
Aromas of exotic fruit, ripe peach, green apple, with a hint of vanilla and spice. This Starmont Chardonnay has a round impression on the palate, a slight richness from the sur lie ... more barrel aging, and has a clean, silky finish. | |
Merlot
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2004 Merryvale Merlot Starmont Napa Valley
Hallmarks of the 2004 vintage are richly structured wines with great concentration. This 2004 Starmont Merlot displays notes of bright cherry, raspberry, cedar, vanilla and forest. ... more On the palate, the wine has a soft entry, followed by notes of chocolate and a nice fleshy quality. The finish is rich, complex and lingering. The wine will continue to develop with further cellaring.
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Cabernet Sauvignon
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2004 Starmont Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Our 2004 Starmont Cabernet Sauvignon displays notes of cassis, cola, black cherry, cranberry, caramel and kirsch. The mouthfeel is round and focused. There are notes of chocolate a ... morend cedar on the finish with well integrated tannins that will support further cellaring.
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Sauvignon Blanc
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2006 Merryvale Sauvignon Blanc Juliana Vineyards, Napa Valley
The finished wine has expressive aromatic notes of ripe, white peach, melon, papaya, guava and exotic fruit, and a hint of toast and vanilla bean. On the palate, the texture is rou ... morend and the fruit plays off of a solid core, giving the wine both complexity and length. It finishes cleanly with both a refreshing citrus and mineral quality that will complement grilled fish or chicken, and your favorite shellfish.
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Chardonnay
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2004 Merryvale Chardonnay Carneros Reserve Carneros
This wine was carefully assembled from our best lots from the cool Carneros viticultural area both in Napa and Sonoma. It is mostly a combination of wines made from Dijon clones an ... mored flavorful and low-yielding See’s selection vines. The flavor of the fruit is complemented by the toasty oak spice, richness and complexity of native yeast fermentation in new French oak barrels. Due to relatively warm, dry weather in early spring, budbreak started very early in 2004 and the first stages of vine growth went very quickly.
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Merlot
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2003 Merryvale Merlot Reserve Napa Valley
Due to unfavorable spring weather inhibiting pollination, the Merlot crop in 2003 was very small. The fruit that did finally make it produced wines with rich, concentrated structur ... moree and dark fruit flavors. The core of the 2003 Reserve Merlot blend consists of lots from several vineyards in the Carneros region of Napa Valley. The O’Brien family vineyard in the Oak Knoll District south of Yountville has produced consistently high quality since our first production from there in 2000. Both regions are in the cooler, fog-influenced southern end of the valley. We included a small lot of Petit Verdot from La Herradura on Conn Valley Road to add some depth and richness to the wine’s structure.
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Cabernet Sauvignon
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2003 Merryvale Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa Valley
The 2003 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon blend is made up of a few of our best lots from vineyards in Oakville, Oak Knoll District and Rutherford. Weather in spring created such poor se ... moret that there was very little Merlot to use for blending in 2003. The Cabernet Sauvignon crop was not affected and the wines turned out very dense and concentrated. A few barrels of our best Cabernet Franc lot went into the blend to round out the mouthfeel and add a little aromatic complexity.
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Chardonnay
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2003 Merryvale Chardonnay Silhouette Napa Valley
This wine was selected barrel by barrel from our finest NapaValley Chardonnay lots. All of the lots were from the cool end of NapaValley, either in the windy Carneros or just north ... more of the city limits of Napa. The vineyards are mostly planted with Dijon clones which produce low yields and concentrated, intensely flavored fruit. Each lot was fermented in predominantly new French oak barrels from our favorite coopers. All of the wine was uninoculated and fermented with native yeast, a method that accentuates the richness of the wine’s mouthfeel. The wine is dense, rich and complex, with a long smoky, toasty oak finish.
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Other Red
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2003 Merryvale 'Profile' Napa Valley
Profile is a blend of many of our finest lots of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, chosen for their concentration, depth of flavor and fine tannin struct ... moreure. This wine was aged in mostly new French oak chateau ferre barrels and bottled unfiltered. It is opulently structured and very dark. This wine should develop complexity with up to ten years in the bottle and hold for many years after that.
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Merlot
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2003 Merryvale Merlot Beckstoffer Las Amigas Carneros
This is the sixth year of a vineyard-designated Merryvale bottling from the Beckstoffer family’s Las Amigas Merlot vineyard in Carneros. This modern planting of clones 181 and 31 ... more4 is on a vertical, shoot-positioned trellis and is producing outstanding quality. In 2003, variable weather at bloom resulted in a yield of barely a ton per acre. This wine should develop complexity with up to ten years in the bottle and hold for many years after that.
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Cabernet Sauvignon
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2003 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Vineyard X Napa Valley
2003 was Merryvale’s fifth harvest from the Beckstoffer family’s Vineyard X, just southwest of Brix Restaurant on the Oakville bench. Blocks B and D were replanted to clones 4 ... moreand 337 in the late 90s. Block C is a ten acre block of thirty year-old vines. We are happy to be able to bottle a vineyard-designated wine from these grapes, and they are also an important component of Profile. The wine is opaquely purple, dense and powerful. This wine should develop complexity with up to ten years in the bottle and hold for many years after that.
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Cabernet Sauvignon
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2003 Cabernet Sauvignon - Beckstoffer Clone Six Rutherford
This is the fifth Merryvale vineyard-designated bottling from low-yielding Clone Six vines in the Beckstoffer family’s Vineyard Georges III in Rutherford. The wine is very dark p ... moreurple, rich and round with good density. This vineyard consistently shows fine texture and supple, balanced tannins.
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Dessert Wine
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Merryvale Antigua, Muscat de Frontignan Dessert Wine Napa Valley
An extraordinary dessert wine made of Muscat de Frontignan and superior Napa Valley pot-still brandy. Golden/amber in color from its long aging in French oak, the wine is a complex ... more combination of nuts and orange-peel aromas. Thick and rich in the mouth, the nuts and orange-peel theme continues from the entry through the long finish, highlighted by the many subtleties from the fine brandy and time in the barrel.
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CrazyAboutWine recommends contacting Merryvale Vineyards at http://www.merryvale.com or calling (707)963-7777 to verify the winery's location.
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