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Wine · US Merlot

Airfield Estates, Merlot

Pay online, pick up at the shop, 2690 Broadway. Ready in about 2 hours during pickup hours. Orders placed after 5:30 PM (4:30 PM on Sunday) are ready the next day from 10:30 AM (11:30 AM Sunday).

The tasting card

From the label

Read off the bottle in our own photograph.

Vintage on the label

2022

Alcohol

14.3%

Size on the label

750 ML

From the tech sheet

Printed for the 2022 vintage by the producer (airfieldwines.com). A figure the sheet repeats word for word from another year is left out.

Total acidity

5.6 g/L

pH

3.82

Tasting note

medium to full-bodied; dark cherry juice, black cassis, blackberry, roasted dates, dark espresso, smoked caramel; smooth, supple tannins; plum jam, vanilla bean

From the producer's tech sheet for the 2022 vintage, in the sheet's own words, shortened.

Winemaking

From the producer's tech sheet for the 2022 vintage. Only what the sheet prints.

Aged for

19 months

Aged in

100% French oak barrels, consisting of 31% new, 44% two to three-year-old, and 25% neutral barrels

Made

optical sorter; cold soak of 48 hours; inoculated with several yeast strains; fermentation on the skins for 13 days; malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels; lees stirred

About this bottle

Full notes are coming soon. We only publish what we can confirm from the producer or the bottle itself, so this page grows as we check it. Ask us in the shop, or ask Chaz, our AI sommelier, at the bottom of the page.