Winemaker Notes
Blend: 48% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Attractive scents of sweet oak spice, ripe red bramble fruit, vanilla and fragrant violet nuances. Mouth filling with freshness and a nice concentration. Rounded, with purity of fruit.
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Wine Enthusiast
This perfume wine is rich in blackberry flavors. Its tannins are already well defined and in balance with the ripe fruitiness. This full, smoky wine has a great future.
One of the world’s most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, the best of these are densely hued, fragrant, full of fruit and boast a structure that begs for cellar time. Somm Secret—Blends from Bordeaux are generally earthier compared to those from the New World, which tend to be fruit-dominant.
Famous for both its red and white wines, Graves is a large region, extending 30 miles southeast of the city of Bordeaux, along the left bank of the Garonne River. Red wine producing vineyards cover well over three times as much area as the whites. In the late 1980s, the French created the separate appellation of Pessac-Léognan within the northern confines of Graves. It includes all of its most famous properties, and the southern suburbs of the city Bordeaux itself. In French "graves" is a term used to indicate gravelly soils.