Markham Merlot

Hi, today we're tasting the Markham Merlot from Napa Valley. Markham is one of Napa Valley's oldest wineries. They have a beautiful historic stone cellar in St Helena, north of the city. So if you get a chance to go down to Napa Valley, I highly recommend a visit to them. They are focusing on the Merlot grape variety. Now because they are one of the oldest wineries, they've also owned their land for a very long time, which makes the value incredible. They don't need to pay for purchasing new sites. So we can get this really high quality Merlot for half the price of the prestige other wines in California. Let's give this wine a try. One thing that's really nice about Merlot is that it has this really plummy baking spice, plush characteristic. Napa Valley is certainly giving you more of that intensity and it is wafting quite easily towards the nose. It's delicious without fruit. It's relatively low acid. You don't really have food with it and we should all drink more Merlot, but not too much because then the price will go up.