What are Jake and Suzanne Drinking?

Monticello Merlot Estates Oak Knoll, Napa Valley, CA 2019
2 oz pour: $7 |  5 oz pour $18 |  Bottle: $61

The full body of this Merlot appeals to our Cabernet loving senses. It has the dark fruit flavors we love, with slightly softer tannins and moderate acid. This is a “sit on the couch and enjoy a glass with a charcuterie and cheese plate” kind of wine. And we just happen to have couches in the restaurant!

91 Points James Suckling-California - Napa Valley - Oak Knoll - Notes of spices and dried herbs with plums, blackberries, bark and moist earth. Medium- to full-bodied with fine, creamy tannins. Weighty, dark-fruited mid-palate lingering finish.

In 1969, Jay Corley came to Napa Valley in search of land to handcraft exceptional wines. He acquired a Prohibition-era prune orchard and established Monticello in 1970. Not the type to put his own name on his product, Jay named Monticello after Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia home and modeled the winery estate house after Jefferson’s Monticello, built in the Palladian architectural style of the Italian Renaissance. Over five decades, Monticello has produced more than a thousand 90+ rates wines.

Suggested Pairing

In addition to the above charcuterie and cheese suggestion, just about anything! The beauty of Merlot is that it pairs well with all kinds of foods. Feeling the burrata pizza tonight, the prosciutto sandwich or the filet?

All goes well with this wine.