acetone<\/a> GONE!!!; very mellow, well melded;\u00a0 not as tannic as cab<\/p>\nMerlot A:\u00a0 maple or fruit syrup on the nose; also sweet; not as acidic at all, but more acid than barrel merlot;\u00a0 smells like BBQ sauce;\u00a0 condensed sweetness;\u00a0 smells like port.\u00a0 When tasted again after having sausage and cheese, tasted very toasty.<\/p>\n
Merlot B:\u00a0 really sweet nose and taste; more fruit in nose; less condensed, fresher;\u00a0 more spice, more fruit than merlot A.<\/p>\n
Things quickly degenerated into chaos as we started playing with blends.\u00a0 I tried to keep up\u00a0 — after already drinking a lot of wine \u2013 to write down all the combos and notes.\u00a0 I also opened a bottle of a kit cab-merlot to see how it blended with the grape wines.\u00a0 We tested about 14 combinations, and came to the conclusion that everyone seemed to like the cab the most.\u00a0 Both of the barrel wines (cab and merlot) were great alone, but cab with a little of any of the merlots seemed to be an improvement.<\/p>\n
It was a lot of fun, and definitely a big mess.\u00a0 Now I have a lot to consider before I can get this wine bottled.<\/p>\n
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I had some friends over last night to taste the cabernet sauvignon and 3 merlots made from fresh grapes.\u00a0 We first by tasted each individually, starting with the cab and then the barrel merlot, merlot A, and merlot B.\u00a0 It was very interesting how much all of the wines have changed even since my last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,42,33,4,32,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I had some friends over last night to taste the cabernet sauvignon and 3 merlots made from fresh grapes.\u00a0 We first by tasted each individually, starting with the cab and then the barrel merlot, merlot A, and merlot B.\u00a0 It was very interesting how much all of the wines have changed even since my last tasting about a month ago.<\/p>\n