Duckhorn Three Palms MerlotWinery notes: Since our inaugural 1978 vintage, we have been proud to craft a vineyard designate Merlot from the legendary Three Palms Vineyard. Named for its three iconic palm trees, this warm, up valley vineyard features lean soils that cause the vines to send their roots deep in search of nutrients, yielding a profoundly intense and age worthy wine with complex fruit and mineral layers. As a testament to its status as the benchmark for New World

I can put certain aspects in writing–the exquisite perfume of gently crushed red berries

muscular power into a long

age-worthy rosé (once praised by Robert Parker as the greatest rosé in the world)

but also aristocratic

One of Le Montrachet’s first admirers

A Delicious Thing

” but the bottle says the rest

cooked blueberries and black cherries while fine-grained tannins surround and support them for further aging

but this brisk rosé does everything that mineral water can and so much more

44-foot tall column still

that's pretty good

opening with firm red fruit—tart cherry and red currant—set against dried leaves