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Merlot Bordeaux Rive droite vin rouge tranquille

Origin

Bordeaux

Growing regions

France, Australia, South Africa, Chile, USA, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Argentina

Merlot from the Right Bank — the reigning variety of the great appellations of the Gironde’s Right Bank — Saint-Émilion, Pomerol, Fronsac, Castillon — on the blue and grey clays, iron-rich soils and clay-limestone — is the world’s most celebrated face of Merlot.