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Acclaim
90 Points- Jim Laube, Wine Spectator, September 2007
90 Points - Wine Enthusiast, March 2008

Winemaker's Notes
We’re extremely excited about our 2004 Merlot. Richard feels it’s one of the finest he’s ever produced in his four decades of winemaking in Sonoma County. The nose is ripe and luscious with black cherries, plums and cassis. The palate is rich and velvety with great intensity and fine tannins. This is a broad shouldered Merlot with an intense mouth-feel that evolves into and elegant, lingering finish.

The 2004 growing season opened with a heat wave in the first half of March triggering an early bloom. The remainder of the year was marked by the customary warm days, cool nights and morning fog that typifies our region.

The fruit for this 2004 Sonoma County Merlot came from the Alexander and Sonoma Valleys. All of the Sonoma Valley fruit is from the Arrowood Estate vineyard. This rolling site in front of the winery was certified organic as of this vintage. As a certified organic vineyard we are able to guarantee the continued integrity of the site and produce the most accurate and individualized wines possible.

Richard first started bottling Merlot in 1988 when a barrel destined to be blended with the Cabernet Sauvignon was tasted and found to be so outstanding that he felt it would be a shame not to feature it on its own.