Pride Mountain Vineyards Napa County Estate Merlot 2023 012626OFFER the palate bursts with sweet/sour

the palate bursts with sweet/sour morello cherries and hints of spices

There's nothing precious here: just easy

this skips the nutty oxidative character in favor of brightness and energy

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Pride Mountain Vineyards Napa County Estate Merlot 2023 012626OFFER the palate bursts with sweet/sourPride sits 2,100 feet up on Spring Mountain, where fog rarely reaches and the nights get properly cold mountain fruit, small berries, thick skins, real structure. That elevation is the whole story here: this is Merlot with backbone, not the soft and plush kind that gave the grape a bad name in the '90s. It's built on the same Mayacamas ridge that produces the estate's Cabernet, and it drinks like a serious mountain red that just happens to be Merlot.