Merlot Red Wine

Deep in colour, with bright, leafy forest bramble fruit and appealing juicy texture. The warmth of the 22 vintage shines through here.

From France's deep south where the daily heat gives red wines a bigger, richer character than further north. This a wine with structure, suppleness and plenty of warm, ripe fruit.

From one of the best Estates in the Côtes de Bourg – ticks all the ‘affordable claret boxes. Rich forward and perfect for drinking now. Great value.

From 3rd-growth Château Giscours (Margaux) and sumptuous, abundant, well-balanced proof that you need not always pay £20+ for a bottle of Left Bank pedigree and finesse.

From the wine making team at Château Clinet in Pomerol and so good that the proprietor Ronan Laborde named it after himself. Luscious merlot that is at its peak now.

A soft, rich wine with a touch of minerality. The blend is 65% merlot, 33% cabernet sauvignon with a touch of petite verdot, and the wine aged in oak for 12 ...

A high quality claret from the great 2010 vintage, when the growing season and harvest in Bordeaux were as close to perfect as it gets.

"It’s a real treat to get full mature red Bordeaux from such a fine vintage for such a fair price."

This is a great advertisement for the vintage - nicely developed, but also with plenty of presence and stuffing, partnering ripe, luscious cassis fruit, with maturity adding layers of cedar.

Château Ramafort is in cracking form. The Cru Bourgeois estate, once belonged to Château Lafite. A 50/50 blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot.

The second wine of Château Cantermerle from an extraordinary vintage that is close to full maturity now.

A perfectly mature 'mini-super-Tuscan' blend of sangiovese, cab franc and merlot and without the super-Tuscan price. Almost two decades on, it's full of delicious nuance, complexity - and life.

The wine is 87% merlot and 13% cabernet franc with complex and concentrated red fruit flavour. In our opinion, it is of Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé quality.

"... it’s a wonderfully classy vino, with hints of cedar wood, tobacco, leather and plenty of cassis on the impressively sophisticated finish."

An example of the supreme quality of fruit and depth of flavour to be had from the Côtes-de-Bordeaux, especially in such a generous vintage, as was 2015.

Ch. Bessane's unusually high percentage of petit verdot (45%) imbue intensified floral aromatics to beautifully complement the opulence and depth expressed in this stellar vintage.

From the exceptional and forward 2018 vintage - our everyday drinking claret with everything we are all looking for - soft, rich merlot driven fruit.

An outstanding Cru Bourgeois from one of Bordeaux's all-time greatest vintages that is now at its drinking peak for just under £20 a bottle. An unmissable opportunity.

An estate situated on one of the finest terroirs of Saint-Emilion and therefore has some of the great Premiers Grands Crus Classés as neighbours. Big, concentrated, expressive.

"Merlot-based blend given style and structure by a dash of Cabernet Franc, it’s chock full of dark, plummy fruit and is delightfully soft, smooth, ripe and juicy."

"Full, rich and weighty, crammed with heady hedgerow fruit, it's a fine expression of both vintage and appellation. Silky smooth in the mouth, with great localdepth of juicy cassis flavour"

An elegant, sumptuous blend of merlot, cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon from this revered, classified, 27-hectare Grand Cru-classified estate in St-Emilion.