A stellar  bottle of Napa red.  All you merlot haters should pick up a bottle, just to see how wrong you can be. If Tom Hardy was a wine, he would be a bottle of this juice: muscular, dramatic, and brooding.  Toasted spice, belgian truffle, and creme de cassis.

A famous wine writer said “the 2014 Merlot from Havens Winery remarkably celebrated their 30th vintage in Napa.” Sure, the sentence structure is a bit awkward, but the main point that the winery has been around for 30 years is a bit misleading.  Havens Winery went bankrupt years ago (I used to work there).  The former Havens facility in Napa is now owned by Trinchero Family Estates. Joel Gott is making wine there now. The Havens label –which includes this wine– is now part of Stonehedge Winery.

That is pretty common these days. Wineries come and go, but the name sticks around. Just ask poor old Charles Shaw.

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The growth of wine tourism in Australia over the last decade has been substantial, (Ali-Knight and Charters, 1999, and Macionis. & Cambourne 1998) and this development has been mirrored in other wine producing areas – particularly in other ‘New World’ wine destinations such as North America and New Zealand. At the same time it is generally acknowledged that there has been little research into the nature of wine tourists, their motivation and intentions and how they can be effectively segmented. This becomes increasingly important if wine producers are to focus their activity in the area to maximise their potential gains in sales and long term customers, and if the operators or associated tourism ventures are to focus on consumers who will optimise the use of their services.

The Wine Rating: Havens Winery  2014 Merlot, Napa Valley

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