Substance Super Substance Stoneridge Merlot 2013
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
What will be released under a Vineyard Collection sometime in the near future, the 2013 Super Substance Merlot Stoneridge offers a full-bodied, sexy, gorgeously textured style to go with lots of black currants, plums, graphite and licorice. There’s a scant 500 cases produced, but it’s a beautiful Merlot that will drink well for 10-12 years.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2013 Super Substance Merlot exhibits an excellent purity of fruit. This wine—made from 100% Merlot—did not require the use of Cabernet Sauvignon, a grape variety often utilized by many wineries to give support to the more elegant Merlot. This wine brings bright red fruit, some dust, and dried herbs onto the palate. Its smooth finish pairs it well with roast chicken. (Tasted: August 1, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
The original thought was to be a one wine brand, with a single minded vision to produce the best value-priced Cabernet Sauvignon in America. How do you go about this? Traditional winemaking. Natural fermentations. Barrel-aging. Plus, bottling unfiltered and unfined. In essence, making the wines in small batch winemaking integrity, but doing so on a larger scale. The wine is black. The label definitively says, "This is Cabernet Sauvignon." With the CS, you know who made this wine: Charles Smith. There is also the single vineyard, single expression, Bordeaux varietals (ex: Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot) produced in very limited quantities. Let's not to forget, the single vineyard Loire-style Substance Sauvignon Blanc. Wines of Substance illustrates Charles’ philosophy of producing exceptional wines to be enjoyed by everyone around the globe.