The 2016 Signature Mountain Blend is a Merlot-dominated blend and includes 24% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Petit Verdot. It's a powerful yet supple and seamless blend that gives up plenty of red and black fruits, toasted spice, chocolate, and graphite aromas and flavors. Concentrated, super-rich, yet perfectly balanced, it's a total head turner of a Merlot to drink over the coming 15-20 years.

The 2016 Signature Mountain Blend is blended of 56% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Petit Verdot, 7% Malbec and 5% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet-purple colored, it's a little closed to begin, opening out to reveal notions of warm plums, blackberry pie and forest floor with nuances of baking spices, potpourri and dusty soil. Full-bodied and laden with plum preserves and loads of spicy layers, it has a firm, rounded tannin texture and earth-laced finish.- LPB

The Merlot-based 2016 Signature Mountain Blend offers notable freshness to play off the intense jammy fruit that is such a signature of these wines. Red cherry preserves, cloves, new leather, cinnamon and mocha all infuse this super-appealing, textured wine from Hertelendy. -- Antonio Galloni

Big and rich, featuring ripe dark fruit and Asian spice flavors that turn creamy midpalate. Concentrated dark chocolate accents show on the powerful finish, with lithe minerality and savoriness. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec. Drink now through 2024. 288 cases made. — KM