Clos du Val Merlot
- Red
- United States
- Napa Valley
- Tracked vintages
- 18
- Community notes
- 154
- Merchant offers
- 4
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- UnknownNobody has published a critic score for a vintage we track
- Real drinkers
- 85/ 100154 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- UnknownNothing a merchant has quoted in a unit and a currency we can print
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 25 community ratings, read 2026-08-12.
- Body3.9 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity1.9 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin2.2 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness2.0 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, blueberry, plum, black fruit, black cherry
- Oak · oak, chocolate, cedar, vanilla, tobacco
- Earth · earthy, leather, mushroom, cocoa, smoke
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red cherry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, menthol, anise
- Ageing (non-oak) · toast, carob, dried fig, roasted almond, toasted nuts
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a community score.
- 201688
- 200687
- 200589
- 200485
- 200387
- 200287
- 200185
- 200089
- 199987
- 199889
- 199788
- 199685
- 199582
- 198589
- 198388
- 197994
- 197891
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 1979
- 94 / 100 from drinkers