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Red · USA
Airfield Estates, Merlot 2022
Airfield Estates
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About this wine
Merlot 2022 from Airfield Estates is a red wine from Yakima Valley AVA, USA. Published figures: 14.3% alcohol, total acidity of 5.6 g/L and a pH of 3.82.
The tasting card
- Producer
- Airfield Estates
Named by the producer (airfieldwines.com). - Wine
- Airfield Estates, Merlot
- Vintage
- 2022
From the label - Region
- USA
- Appellation
- Yakima Valley AVA
Named by the producer (airfieldwines.com). - Grapes
- Not published
- Sweetness
- Not published
- Farming
- No verified farming claim
- Alcohol
- 14.3%
From the label - Total acidity
- 5.6 g/L
From the tech sheet, printed for the 2022 vintage by the producer (airfieldwines.com) - Residual sugar
- Not published
- pH
- 3.82
From the tech sheet, printed for the 2022 vintage by the producer (airfieldwines.com)
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
Awards
None published.
Structure
A bar appears only where the producer published a number. Measured figures come from the producer's technical sheet; the body bar is inferred from alcohol and labelled that way.
14.3% alcoholinferred Body is estimated from alcohol. It is not a producer measurement.
absent Not measured. No producer tech sheet behind these wines publishes tannin as a number, so we show no bar.
absent No residual sugar figure published.
5.6 g/L total aciditymeasured From the producer's technical sheet.
What the critics said
None on record.
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