How This Napa Valley Merlot Finally Earned a ‘Perfect’ 100-Point Score

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The Cabinet Swagenon Valley is a Napa jewelry, while Merlot has few fans in the last two decades. Winemaker Chris Carpenter – known for his extraordinary caretaker Swagunin – however, he was a supporter of Merlot, even when it was most irreparable. “This is an underdug, and I have always got the roots of the underdug,” he said. Rob reports. “I am a fan of Chicago Bears, so I have learned to embrace this part of the Fandem.” The carpenter has been developing his La Jota WS Wine Yard Merlot since 2008, and in his hands, Merlot has certainly performed better than his dear monster monsters. Alcohol has received stable, solid scores in the 90s year, but Kamal gave birth to his grip in the eyes of large critics of alcohol. With the vintage of 2021, all this changed, when Pocket Dunnak awarded the Hole Mountain with a bottle related to the name of the Garden. This is not the carpenter’s first perfect score. It has won three 100s in Cardinell and Caleben Cabinet Frank in Lukia, in addition to Cabinet Swagenan-but this is its first for the under-Under-epithetic types.

While 2021 WS Keys Merilot (La Jota also makes a hole Mountain Merlot) praise can be particularly beneficial for the carrier after scoring 99 points for 2018. Robert Parker’s liquor lawyer And the same score for 2019 from Pocket Dunnak, he notes that it was particularly sweet on the 2020 vintage heels, which was lost from a jungle fire. “Not having alcohol due to smoke in 2020 was a real emotional deficiency,” the car says.. “It is especially good that it is a Merlot and this type is always under -stricken in Napa.”

Unlike other liquor makers who claim to take care of those who drink their offers, Carpenter admits that he always tries to make 100 -point alcohol. He says, “I approach every vintage with the same attention, draw attention to the detail, and drive for virtue.” “With critics, you have to understand that they do not always see what you see, or their day is bad, or they have prejudice that they may not end, so they will not always rank that you hope they will do.” Of course he doesn’t just think about critics. The carriage strictly understands people who buy and collect its bottles, especially “how they connect with alcohol, how they are connected to their combinations, and what they want to discover with the evolution of alcohol. This is the most important aspect of the form of art.”

The carpenter believes that there was a silver lining in the 2020 fire. He says, “This is a kind of madness, but the next year, a year ago that affected grape growth samples caught fire.” “Basically, it significantly reduced the burden of crops, the skins were thick, and the concentration of flavors was raised,” fate certainly fulfilled the skill. After working hard for many years in the WS Keys Wine Yard, which sits high on the fog line at 1,825 feet on Hole Mountain, Carpenter knows how to fix his farm to fit the ventage: “I always look for this indicator and we are looking for a small adjustment.” The decisions of the harvesting of its intimacy about its stream are “driven by the balance of taste, acid and tinn”, then its low interference style, old school alcoholism “without a tremendous technology or technique, which can change the signature of the stream.

The carpenter has agreed with the claim that great wine begins in the vineyard. They say that the maximum light and low production soil of the WS Keys Wine Yard makes it ideal for the murlot, but it is not enough. With a lot of focus on crop production, light exposure, umbrella management, and water rule, it still needs to be farming in a special way to allow its murlot to be expressed at a high level. “This is a type of extraordinary complexity, a set of its own flavors that are different from the cabinets – the flavors that I believe is able to find them. It is also well and different,” he says..

La Jota 2021 WS Keys Wine Yard is ink violet for the eye and has a bouquet of black pepper, purple berries, and crushed violet. Lushy, it opens with the flavors of the black beer, supported by dry temim, lavender, milk chocolate and leather notes. Beautifully balanced with plush tanins and beautiful acidity, this wine is still drinking exactly, but those who can wait will be rewarded for their patience for 20 years. The self -styled competitive chain of the carriage wants to prove that bottles belonging to the Napa Valley can be “at the same stage” such as Peters and Masters as the world’s great Marlots, and with this release we believe it has achieved that goal.

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