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Township 7 Vineyards & Winery Interlude Merlot 2024

Township 7 Vineyards & Winery Interlude Merlot 2024
Township 7 Vineyards & Winery Interlude Merlot 2024

British Columbia, Canada



Community Score: 4.6/5
Community Reviews: 2
 
Price: $33.00
Sweetness: Extra Dry
Alcohol: 14.9%
 

Drink: 2026-2031

Bottle size: 750 ml
Winery: Township 7 Vineyards & Winery

Deborah Podurgiel WSET IV Candidate rated this wine as 93/100 with the following review:

Wow! When I decanted this Merlot, I could smell the ripe dark fruits and spiciness from across the room. So spicy, rich, deep, dark and broody, it wants a hearth fire and a cigar. This is a beautiful Merlot and only really coming into its own now. Pretty fantastic now, but I would cellar it for another year to enjoy it through 2032. Dry, full, opulent, and spicy on the palate with ripe dark cherry, plum, cedar, tobacco and pepper spice all wrapped up in rich, velcroish tannins. Tasted October 2026.

Township 7 Vineyards & Winery “Interlude” series was so named after the 2024/25 freeze up in British Columbia which destroyed the entire 2024 vintage for some wineries forcing them to source their grapes from outside the province. The Merlot grapes for Township 7’s 2024 vintage were sourced from Washington State and the wine was crafted, aged and bottled at their estate winery in Naramata, British Columbia.
 

  


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