Merlot
Bordeaux, Fransa
A softer, earlier-ripening red grape than its Bordeaux half-sibling Cabernet Sauvignon, offering plush, approachable fruit and rounder tannins.
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Fransa
Bordeaux (Right Bank: Pomerol, Saint-Émilion)
Often the dominant grape in the region's most prestigious, age-worthy blends.
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California
Approachable, plush varietal wines that drove the grape's 1990s popularity boom.
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İsviçre
Ticino
About four-fifths of the canton's vines, from fresh and fruity to oak-aged, and also made as a white wine, Merlot Bianco.
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Merlot is first mentioned by name in Bordeaux records in the late 18th century, its name possibly derived from "merle," French for blackbird, a bird reputedly fond of its grapes. DNA analysis published in 2009 identified Cabernet Franc and the now-vanishingly-rare Magdeleine Noire des Charentes as its parents, linking it directly to the same Cabernet Franc lineage as its more famous half-sibling.
Earlier-ripening and more forgiving than Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot became the dominant grape of Bordeaux's Right Bank, especially Pomerol and Saint-Émilion, where it can stand largely alone in some of the region's most prestigious and age-worthy wines. A wave of consumer-friendly marketing in the 1990s made it one of the most widely planted red grapes worldwide, a popularity that briefly dipped after being memorably disparaged in the 2004 film "Sideways," though its commercial and critical standing has long since recovered.
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