Raphael Merlot 2005
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The 2005 Estate Merlot is our biggest and best yet. Dark black fruit and jammy with nuances of blackberries, cassis, tobacco and eucalyptus, this wine outclasses most wines in its price category. The Merlot is on its own in this wine, providing full ripe tannins and dense mouth feel reflecting the extreme ripeness levels of the 2005 vintage.
Raphael was born from the vision of John Petrocelli, after whose father the winery is named. In Raphael, the Petrocelli Family is striving for the production of Long Island’s greatest wine, incorporating both New World advances and Old World traditions. The result is a wine with an incomparable personality, resulting from the ideal marriage of soil and climate found on the North Fork of Long Island, and is also reflected in the elegant, Mediterranean-styled winery, a picture of which adorns its label.