After 37 years of making wines from its coveted fruit, Duckhorn Wine Company has acquired Napa Valley’s legendary Three Palms Vineyard. Widely recognized as one of the top merlot vineyards in the ...

Duckhorn Wine Co. has purchased Napa Valley’s Three Palms Vineyard, which helped pioneer merlot in California. St. Helena-based Duckhorn has been sourcing its fruit from Three Palms for 37 years, and ...

Duckhorn's Three Palms Vineyard Merlot comes from one of those individual vineyard sites that increases the value of and the demand for a wine. (Probably only Heitz's Martha's Vineyard is more famous.

Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

Merlot is one of the most important Bordeaux varieties along with Cabernet Sauvignon. It's fleshier and ripens earlier than Cabernet, resulting in softer wines with plush tannins and fruit. Bordeaux ...

The 1941 edition of American Wines by Frank Schoonmaker and Tom Marvel didn't mince words. It dismissed merlot as a blending grape that never would be important in California. End of story. Well, ...

Dan Duckhorn, a California winemaker who fell in love with merlot and transformed it into one of the most popular red wines in the United States, died Wednesday in Napa, California. He was 87. The ...