Speaking of red Bordeaux varieties, since we are tasting the 2005 Swanson Oakville Merlot today, I’m looking for perfectly ripe fruit, but avoiding super-high Brix levels, which lead to some of the very stylized wines produced today, which need huge doses of input by … Wine should be universal. We’ll need to sit down and discuss this question more over another bottle of Merlot… RED: Any time. It would be a great pleasure. Tell me, what makes the Napa Valley so special? …
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2006 Swanson Vineyards Arsene – Fortified Desert Petite Sirah …