The Douglas Green Merlot is a luscious medium-bodied red wine that provides the added gold touch to your meal with friends. It is easily paired with pasta, ribs, pizza, or roast lamb and can be drunk now or within 3 years of vintage.

Bright garnet with a bright strawberry rim. Packed with juicy black cherry and fleshy plum aromas that tumble softly across the palate with plush mulberry and spice flavors interwoven with soft, ripe tannins and subtle oak intrigue for a smooth and juicy finish.

The supple and fruity Douglas Green Merlot is fermented on the skins up to when it is dry. After the grapes are pressed, the tart-tasting malic acid which is naturally present in grape must is converted to softer tasting lactic acid through the malolactic fermentation process on French oak staves. It is then left for another three months for complexity and integration Bottling and blending is done in cellars in Wellington.

Douglas Green became of South Africa’s first winemakers in the first half of the 20^th century and now exports wines to many countries around the world. After the First World War, Douglas Green stayed in Europe and immense experience while working in the Champagne region. He also had qualifications as an oenologist and viticulturist at one of South Africa’s wine schools. Douglas then went on to purchase a local winery in 1938 and later renamed it to Douglas Green & Company. From inception, his ideology was to always look for the best of grapes he could locate and make the best fruity wines.

It pairs well with hard and mature cheese, poultry, spicy food, beef, and venison.

Douglas Green Merlot Details

Type: Red Wine

Variety: Merlot

Winemaker: Jaco Potgieter

Grapes: Malbec, Merlot

Pack: bottle

Volume: 750ml

Winery/Brand: Douglas Green Wines

State/Country: South Africa

Region: Western Cape (Swartland and Breedekloof)

Closure: Screwcap

Style: Dry

Alcohol content/percentage: 13.5%