Cartlidge & Browne Merlot California 750 MLAromatics lead with plum and black current, followed by vanilla and slightly spicy oak. Full and broad on the palate, with balanced acid and tannin, with chocolate and toasty oak on the finish. \n \n Producer Information \n Legends often begin in the most ordinary surroundings. For Tony Cartlidge and Glen Browne, as with many great entrepreneurs and iconoclasts of the 20th century, the legend began in 1980 in an undistinguished Napa Valley garage.