Lodi Merlot - Ironstone Vineyards

With the Ironstone Vineyards Lodi Merlot, a first-class red wine flows into the crystal-clear glass. It offers a wonderfully dense, ruby-red color. After a little time in the glass, this red wine from the USA reveals delightfully expressive aromas of plum, rounded off by black cherry, vanilla and cedarwood.

The Ironstone Vineyards Lodi Merlot tastes pleasantly dry. It was bottled with 3.8 grams of residual sugar. As you would expect from a wine in the high-quality segment, this North American wine naturally delights, for all its dryness, with the finest balance. Aroma does not necessarily require a lot of residual sugar. Thanks to its present fruit acidity, the Lodi Merlot appears impressively fresh and lively on the palate. The finish of this well-ageable red wine from the California region, more precisely from the Central Valley, ultimately convinces with a lovely aftertaste.

Vinification of the Ironstone Vineyards Lodi Merlot

This powerful red wine from the USA is vinified from the Merlot and Petit Verdot grape varieties. After the grape harvest, the grapes are quickly brought to the press house. There they are sorted and gently crushed. This is followed by fermentation in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperatures. After the end of fermentation.

Food recommendation for the Ironstone Vineyards Lodi Merlot

This American red wine works perfectly as a pairing with duck breast and sugar snap peas, lamb ragout with chickpeas and dried figs, or braised chicken in red wine.

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