Merlot

Navarra sits between Rioja and Bordeaux in both geography and grape mix, and Ars Nova draws on all of it in one blend.

This is the wine the estate is named for: Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot off the oldest plantings on the Tuscan coast, fermented in large ...

Navarra is better known for everyday rosé, and Mácula is the corrective: a Bordeaux blend grown high in the Yerri Valley, fermented witho...

Petra's entry red is the Maremma without the oak — eight months in concrete, so the black cherry and maquis herbs come through clean.

A single-vineyard Merlot from the Tuscan coast, made in a deliberately fresh style: whole-berry handling, long maceration and only 30% ne...

Cape Merlot usually means soft and simple; this comes off steep, cool, south-facing slopes and spends fifteen months in barrel, a third of them new.

Sophia is Craggy Range's Merlot-led statement from the Gimblett Gravels, made from the same French oak vats every vintage and matured in ...

The Gimblett Gravels is New Zealand's strongest site for Bordeaux varieties, and Te Kahu is the wine that makes the case most cheaply.

Syrah leads, with the Greek Limnio for savoury depth and Merlot for flesh, aged a year in French oak and bottled without fining or filtration.

A first-rank Pomerol estate on the Saint-Émilion border, Merlot-dominant and now fully mature at fourteen years old.

A Pauillac classed growth sitting between Lafite and Mouton and farmed to the same standard by the same owners.

Saint-Julien's largest single-block vineyard, with 50-year-old vines, in a benchmark vintage for the decade.

Margaux at Third Growth level from 2015, a vintage that gave the appellation ripeness and structure in the same wine.

A Premier Grand Cru Classé from the limestone plateau at the heart of Saint-Émilion, in a classic vintage that gave structure without heaviness.

The leading estate of Saint-Julien, from the walled Grand Clos that sits on the Pauillac boundary beside Château Latour, and a wine that ...

A classified-growth Margaux with fourteen years behind it, which is the point at which claret stops being a project and starts being a drink.

Properly mature claret is the hardest thing to buy at this price, and this one arrives with a decade already behind it and no cellaring required.

Pagodes comes off plots identified for it on the Hill of Pebbles, not simply what the grand vin declines.

Saint-Émilion on the label usually means a price to match, and 3.5 hectares of vines a short walk from Château Monbousquet is about as cl...

Connétable was one of the very first Médoc second wines, and it comes off Talbot's single 110-hectare vineyard rather than bought-in fruit.

Seventeen hectares on the Grand Poujeaux gravel terrace, the same vein that starts at Mouton Rothschild and ends in Margaux, with Hubert ...

The second wine of a Second Growth Saint-Julien, off forty-five-year-old vines on gravel over clay and made the same traditional way as the grand vin.

Goulée is made in the northern Médoc by Cos d'Estournel, the Saint-Estèphe Second Growth, using the same careful, low-temperature approac...

Pomerol on a small scale: a handful of hectares on the plateau's southern slopes, organically farmed and aged on its fine lees without racking.