Wines made from Merlot grapes of Thrace
Discover the best wines made with Merlot as a single variety or as a blend of Thrace.
More informations about the variety Merlot
Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.
More informations about the region of Thrace
The wine region of Thrace of Greece. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Chamlija or the Château Kalpak produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Thrace are Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet franc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Thrace often reveals types of flavors of cherry, grapefruit or black cherries and sometimes also flavors of jam, mint or prune.
What are the typical flavors of the Merlot grape variety?
- OakPresent in 51% of Merlot
- Red fruitPresent in 46% of Merlot
- Black fruitPresent in 45% of Merlot
- Non oakPresent in 41% of Merlot
- SpicesPresent in 39% of Merlot
- EarthPresent in 37% of Merlot
- MicrobioPresent in 13% of Merlot
- FloralPresent in 8% of Merlot
- Dried fruitPresent in 7% of Merlot
- Tree fruitPresent in 4% of Merlot
- Citrus fruitPresent in 3% of Merlot
- VioletPresent in 2% of Merlot
- ChocolatePresent in 2% of Merlot
- Black fruitsPresent in 2% of Merlot
- PepperPresent in 2% of Merlot
- PlumPresent in 2% of Merlot
- Tropical fruitPresent in 2% of Merlot
- TobaccoPresent in 2% of Merlot
- Red fruitPresent in 2% of Merlot
- VegetalPresent in 2% of Merlot
News about the grape variety Merlot
Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022
The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...
Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium
The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...
‘Space vines’ trial on-track, says team who put Petrus in orbit
Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon ‘space vines’ that were fired into orbit alongside bottles of Petrus 2000 have been nurtured alongside their ‘daughter’ plants in western France, said researchers in an update on the project. ‘The first “space grapes” are now visible on the canes just a few months after the replanting phase that occurred in February 2022,’ said Space Cargo Unlimited, the start-up leading the project. A total of 320 vine canes spent more than a year on the Int ...