2023 | Hourglass Merlot "Blueline" | Napa Valley | USA

A single-vineyard Napa Merlot from a cult hillside producer — Hourglass's "Blueline," plush and serious.

Hourglass is a respected Napa producer, and "Blueline" is its estate hillside vineyard. This Merlot is no afterthought: plush, ripe and structured, with dark plum and cocoa over velvety tannins — the kind of serious Napa Merlot that shows what the grape can do on a great hillside site.

A Blueline Merlot is Napa Merlot taken seriously. Cult producer, hillside estate, Merlot → plush, ripe, structured → you're drinking premium Napa Merlot.

• Merlot
• Napa Valley — California, USA
• Hourglass — "Blueline" estate
• Single-vineyard · hillside

Plum, black cherry and blackberry over cocoa, sweet spice and fine oak with plush, velvety tannins and a long, generous finish. Translation: a plush, serious Napa Merlot — ripe dark fruit with cocoa and spice over velvety tannins. Generous yet structured; Merlot at its Napa best.

A single-vineyard Napa Merlot. Exactly the bottle for roast beef, duck, veal, or mushroom dishes.