Winery Childress VineyardsBarrel Select Merlot
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with beef and game (deer, venison).
The Barrel Select Merlot of the Winery Childress Vineyards is in the top 90 of wines of North Carolina.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Barrel Select Merlot of Winery Childress Vineyards in the region of North Carolina often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Barrel Select Merlot
Pairings that work perfectly with Barrel Select Merlot
Original food and wine pairings with Barrel Select Merlot
The Barrel Select Merlot of Winery Childress Vineyards matches generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of boeuf en daube or canned duck confit.
Details and technical informations about Winery Childress Vineyards's Barrel Select Merlot.
Discover the grape 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.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Barrel Select Merlot from Winery Childress Vineyards are 2013, 2010, 2014, 2011 and 0.
Informations about the Winery Childress Vineyards
The Winery Childress Vineyards is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 64 wines for sale in the of North Carolina to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located on the east coast of the United States, between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The state's transitional Climate is well suited to growing grapes for wine production, and the state has a Long and illustrious wine-making history. North Carolina's finest wines are made from Vitis vinifera grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot and Riesling. However, muscadine grapes (Vitis rotundifolia) are native to the region.
The word of the wine: Licking
Operation consisting in sanitizing a barrel by introducing a wick of ignited sulphur which produces a release of sulphurous gas.
