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Lunessence Merlot 2015

Okanagan Valley, British Columbia BC V.Q.A., Canada

Community Score: 4.6/5
Community Reviews: 6

Price: $30.00

Sweetness: Dry
Alcohol: 15%

Drink: 2017-2025

Bottle size: 750 ml
Winery: Lunessence

Greg Hughes rated this wine as 90/100 with the following review:

Big, broad, and juicy Merlot from British Columbia. This winery is very small production and it looks as though all of their wines are geared to the premium wine category. There are only 200 cases of this particular wine. That's extremely small production.
Glass-coating purple, with some redness at the rim.
Aromatics are classic new world Merlot: damson, macerated cherry, cranberry, chocolate, pipe tobacco, pot pourri, violets, and vanilla.
The alcohol is quite high in this wine at at least 14.5%. That being said, it is still easy to drink and shows a lpt of replays of red and black fruit. There is muuch more berry and cherry on the palate. The plumminess that is so pleasant on the nose takes a backseat. The oak also takes the back seat.
It was aged in a variety of European oaks: French, Hungarian, and Slovakian (not Slovenian). They carefully managed the time it had in oak to ensure the fruit notes weren't crowded out by secondary oak flavours - that's commendable.
This would be a great wine for ginger beef, or grilled vegetables on the barbecue.

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