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26.01.2007
 The first winery built in the Napa Valley following the repeal of Prohibition; Merryvale is located in the heart of America's premier wine region. Graced with a European fountain and formal grounds, the historic winery is ideally located just 1/4 mile south of downtown St. Helena, Napa Valley -- adjacent to renowned Tra Vigne restaurant and within easy walking distance of many other restaurants and shops.
The essence of the Napa Valley - a verdant parquet of diverse soils and microclimates that is home to some of the world's greatest vineyards. Merryvale's director of winemaking, Stephen Test, seeks to capture this essence with thoughtful attention to each of the thousand steps along the way to rich, complex, supple wines. Carefully tended and selected fruit is allowed to ripen fully ensuring that flavor and tannins reach maturity at the same time as the sugar reaches its proper level. The fruit is hand picked and hand sorted before crushing to eliminate any fruit that fails to meet Merryvale's high standards. Our red wines are made with painstaking traditional methods, which extract vibrant color and exclude aggressive tannins. Aging in fine French oak barrels and bottling the wines unfiltered contributes to the rich, round flavors and supple textures for which Merryvale wines are known.
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 structure. This wine was aged in mostly new French oak chateau ferre barrels and bottled unfined and unfiltered. It is opulently structured and very dark.
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