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Formidable Napa Valley Merlot 4-Pack

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Pairs well with: Dirty Harry movies.

Drink this and become: Formidable?

The only way to make this better would be: If one in three bottles happened to double as a time machine.

Whatever you do, don't spill this on: The requiem that prince commissioned you to write.

Don't serve this to: Those with weak constitutions.

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Features

2012 Formidable Merlot, Napa Valley 750ml 4-Pack

  • A robust and varietally-correct Merlot
  • This wine seriously over-delivers, with mouth-coating fruit and spicy oak flavors
  • Derek Rohlffs’ enjoyed making this alter-ego wine, a distinct departure from his Pinot Noir work

The 2012 vintage combines the most notable traits of our Formidable Merlot: it is rich and lush and also very fresh and firm in structure. This intense and complex wine is not for the faint-hearted.
The color is an intense crimson with a tinge of purple, with dark berry fruit and savory mocha oak spice notes. The palate offers a burst of fruit up front and very rich mouthfeel, with black fruit and chocolate flavors carried on thick and dense tannins. The finish is lengthy, with lively and vibrant acidity that provides a note of intense freshness to balance the lush fruit flavors.

Vineyard Notes: Formidable Merlot is influenced by the vineyard’s positioning on the lower slopes of a Napa hillside, on the benchlands. Soils include silty loam and volcanic soils, with excellent drainage, forcing the merlot vines to reach deep for their water and nutrients. These soils result in smaller berries with thicker skins, ultimately delivering more concentrated flavors. Vinification and aging: French oak aged lots, with a high percentage - around 50% - new oak and gentle cellar treatment, including gravity movement.

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Owner/Winemaker Derek Rohlffs is excited to share this Napa Valley Merlot - it's a robust, intense and complex wine that's a departure from his Pinots.

Specs

  • Appellation: Napa Valley
  • Varietal: 100% Merlot
  • Alcohol: 13.7%

Specs

  • Appellation: Napa Valley
  • Varietal: 100% Merlot
  • Alcohol: 13.7%

Vendor Details

Outlier Wine Company

Owner:
Derek Rohlff
Founded:
2007
Location:
Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

Outlier Wine Co. offers balanced, flavorful and well-priced wines that make any occasion more festive. With distinctive packaging and memorable names, the wines include White Wedding Proprietary White and Lucky Red Blend. Proprietor and winemaker Derek Rohlffs is recognized as one of northern California’s new rising star winemakers for his single vineyard Bravium wines as well as the very successful Outlier Wine Co. line.

Through his Cherokee ancestry and California upbringing, Derek was drawn to nature since childhood. He pursued this passion in college, graduating in 1993 with honors from the prestigious Environmental Studies program at UCSB. While his degree was a great foundation for winemaking, it wasn’t until several years later that he would find his calling.

Raising money for charities ultimately provided the spark. At fundraisers, Derek had the opportunity to taste many great wines. He became fascinated by wine’s many facets, including geography, agriculture and chemistry, and found many parallels to his environmental studies background. Eager to learn more, he took a stint at a wine shop that featured tastings with great producers. The experience ignited his desire to make wine himself.

Once he began winemaking in 2000, Derek proved to be a natural. Within 5 years, he had developed private label wines for famous chefs as well as his own brands of value wines, several of which became best sellers of online retailers. These projects would serve as funding for his ultimate ambition—Bravium’s terroir-driven wines from great Northern California vineyards—which launched in 2007.

For his Outlier Wine Co. wines, Derek selects fruit with great balance and flavor that can be made into affordable and thoroughly enjoyable wines.

For his winemaking style, Derek takes inspiration from the great wineries of Italy and France, such as Domaine Tempier, as well as Jeff Brinkman, the esteemed winemaker at Rhys Vineyards. Winemaking is focused on the vineyard; in the cellar, less is more. For Pinots, no fining or filtering, to allow the source fruit to remain at the forefront, vine to bottle. And for Chardonnay, whole cluster pressing with partial malolactic fermentation delivers aromatics and freshness. The Outlier Wine Co. wines are blended to ensure consistent quality from year to year.

Outlier Wine Co. is located on Treasure Island, in the middle of San Francisco Bay. The name Bravium (Latin for “reward, prize or gift”) dovetails with Derek’s Sip & Give program that donates a portion of wine sales to worthy charities selected by customers.

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