Grape - Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon
Price - £11.79
Alcohol - 13%
Available - Waitrose; Ocado
Appearance - Clear; medium intensity; ruby-garnet
Nose - Clean; medium intensity; developed; fruits of the forest, sweet spice.
Palate - Dry; medium+ acidity; medium tannin; medium to medium+ alcohol; medium body; medium intensity; medium length; black cherry, blueberry.
Balance - 8 Length - 6 Intensity - 6 Complexity - 6
This is a pleasant, fairly smooth Bordeaux blend. It is a good bottle, but I don't rate it quite as highly as the Douro and Les Dauphins recently reviewed. It will be a good match for meat, so those of a carnivorous persuasion can certainly bring your Dourthe to the slaughter!
St Emilion vineyard shown in the picture below.
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