Merlot reds wines

Ms. Kim previously worked at Michael Jordan s, the steak house in Grand Central Terminal, and she seems to appreciate the standard bar and a hard night out. But she knows that she wants a Cabernet-Merlot blend for her red wine martini, because of its specific notes of spice. And she achieves it the cocktail is seasoned as surely, and subtly, as if she had pinched powders into it. 

The development of maturity and complexity of the wine is a relatively slow process. While we occasionally observe significant increases in these characteristics in as little as three months, it is more common to find increases in maturity and complexity over time spans measured in years. Some of the white wines of the Northwest are allowed to mature in the bottle for up to one year prior to release for sale. These wines are usually either sweet or are truly dry white wines. Typical examples would be botrytized or late harvest White Rieslings and Chardonnays. The red wines of the Northwest generally are aged in the bottle for one year or more prior to release. A notable exception in recent years has been wines of the V. vinifera cultivar Merlot, offered by several wineries in Washington with six months or less bottle age. 

Lopez, R., Ferreira, V, Hernandez, R, and Cacho, J.F. (1999). Identification of impact odorants of young red wines made with Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache grape varieties a comparative study. J. Sci. Food Agric., 79, 1461-1467. 

The present work was undertaken to explore the contribution that glycosylated volatiles of black grapes can make to red wine aroma, and to attempt to identify those compounds or classes of compounds which may be responsible for specific aroma attributes. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot were the varieties chosen for the study. 

Wine Samples. The wine was a commercially vinified Merlot Vitis vinifera varietal from the 1994 vintage, produced at the Stag s Leap Winery, and was received in bulk as unfined, unfiltered wines which had completed malolactic fermentation. The wine s general chemical characteristics are shown in Table I and indicate that it is a typical Californian red wine, but low in sulfur dioxide (29). 

Twelve commercial 1998 red wines that were part of a different study were used to study the correlation between polymeric pigments as determined by the method of Somers and Evans, and the polymeric pigments (background absorbance) in the protein-tannin precipitate. The twelve commercial wines were from nine different wineries nine of the wines were Cabernet Sauvignon, two were Merlot and one was Petite Sirah. 

Table 13.11. Changes in the phenol composition of a red wine (Merlot) after 6 months, according to aeration and temperatnre (Glories and Bondet de la Bemardie, 1990)...

Two red wines (Mission Estate 2009 Cabernet Merlot, Corbans 2009 Merlot) and a white wine (Oyster Bay 2008 Sauvignon blanc), after being deodorised and reconstituted with absolute ethanol and ultrapure water (See Section 2.5.1), were spaked with known amounts of the sulfur compounds. The non-spiked and the spaked reconstituted wines were then analysed in triplicate using the SPME extraction conditions given in Table 2 and the GC-MS separation and analysis conditions provided in Section 2.3. The concentrations were calculated by interpolation using the corresponding calibration curves. The recovery (R) (%) was estimated as ... 

Merlot - are cultivated together and provide the famous red wines of the Bordeaux region. 

Some flawless analytical methods do exist but more are needed. Quantitative extraction of all the phenolic compounds from skins and seeds is not possible however we have developed a standard, reproducible procedure. Using a solvent with physicochemical properties similar to wine, one performs three cold extractions followed by two warm ones. This gives an estimate of the total phenols and an idea of their solubilities—an important technological factor. Our work, done in 1969-1972 involved the two principal red varieties of Bordeaux (Merlot and Cabemet-Sauvignon) from two vineyards. One ( ) is a Grand Cru of the Medoc region characterized by fast maturation, and the other (SC) matures more slowly (46, 47). 

The presence of 3SH was reported in red Cabernet and Merlot wines (Bouch-illoux et al. 1998a Kotseridis et al. 2000) and it is probably present in wine made from other red grape varieties. However, after alcoholic fermentation, especially... 

Table 5.6 Sensory thresholds and levels of common fermentative sulphur volatile compounds in wines from Trentino (Northern Italy) in the international grape varieties Chardonnay and Merlot and the red berries native grape varieties Marzemino and Teroldego. Samples were from the five vintages 1998 and 2001-2004 (Fedrizzi et al., 2007a).

Benzenemethanethiol, an extremely odoriferous mercaptan with a perception threshold in the vicinity of 0.3 ng/1 in model dilute alcohol solution, was recently identified and assayed in several white (Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Semilion) and red (Merlot and Cabernet) wines (Tominaga et al.,... 

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