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Robert Mondavi Private Selection
2006 Merlot, California

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Story

  • Celebrating California's great diversity of climate, soil and topography in an elegant and approachable style
  • This wine comes primarily from Monterey County, a region that provides the temperate climate, cool breezes and moist alluvial soils that Merlot loves.

    Description

  • Dry, medium-full bodied and juicy with plum, cherry, cedar an chocolate
  • Why Drink This Wine

  • Fabulously complex
  • Our Peers

  • Red Diamond, Beringer Founders Estate, Chateau Ste Michelle
  • Additional Information

  • 80% Merlot, 19% Syrah, 1% other reds
  • Aged 14 months in French oak
  • #2 super premium brand by dollar value
  • Tasting Notes
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    Taste Profile