2023 | Hourglass Merlot "Blueline" | Napa Valley | USA Marchesi Incisa della Rocchetta intense and concentrated small red

intense and concentrated small red berry fruits mingle with firm lemon and ripe apple

typical of wines from the southern sector of Vertus

hints of wet stone and a super dry finish - good for Muscadat lovers

native yeast fermentation

sesame-seed lift rather than overt wood

2023 | Hourglass Merlot "Blueline" | Napa Valley | USA Marchesi Incisa della Rocchetta intense and concentrated small redA single vineyard Napa Merlot from a cult hillside producer Hourglass's "Blueline," plush and serious. Hourglass is a respected Napa producer, and "Blueline" is its estate hillside vineyard. This Merlot is no afterthought: plush, ripe and structured, with dark plum and cocoa over velvety tannins the kind of serious Napa Merlot that shows what the grape can do on a great hillside site. A Blueline Merlot is Napa Merlot taken seriously. Cult producer,