Chilian Merlot

[Thomas]

ww, I think the doc would agree with my assessment: I have both grown grapes and made wine--commercially--in the not-too-distant past.

I remember back when V Satui (sp) started out in the seventies and I gave the volkswagon-cum-winery a visit. His Cabernet was decidedly green pepperish. I was told that it was a character of the grape. That was before I knew much about grape growing and learned that it is indeed a charcater of that grape, provided the grape is not fully ripened.