Domaine de l'Arjolle Cotes de Thongue Equinoxe Merlot 2020

	Full and creamy: convinces professional tasters
	Smells refined of luxurious oak and ripe dark fruit
	Competes with much more expensive Saint-Émilion and Pomerol
	Ready to drink now, but also maturing nicely

 

Spicy wine that, when drunk young, combines well with grilled or spiced meat. After several years of maturing, also excellent with veal or leg of lamb.

 

 

Truly sublime quality Merlot from Arjolle. This full, creamy red wine with wonderful scents of ripe dark fruit convinces professional wine tasters, such as the team of the magazine Perswijn. But the Equinoxe is also very popular with our clientele. This harvest is great and is one of the great Languedoc years.

With conviction we give buying advice to lovers of Bordeaux classics such as Saint-Émilion and Pomerol, because the Equinoxe is a wonderful alternative to the more expensive Merlots from those wine regions. The secret of success - in addition to the craftsmanship of winemaker François Teisserenc - is the incredibly low yield in the vineyards. This is only twenty-five hectoliters per hectare, while more than three times as much (eighty hectoliters) is allowed here.



After picking and fermentation, the Equinoxe matures for ten months in small barrels of French and American oak. They give a complex and subdued oak aroma and taste, befitting a high-quality red wine. The characteristic of ripe Merlot grapes, round and velvety tannin, is fully present.

The winemakers of Arjolle also know how to add a wonderful drinkability. This makes this wine not only very suitable as an accompaniment to many game and meat dishes, but also very tasty outside the meal.