
We drink MERLOT
Good merlot that is! Is Merlot coming back? It seems to be. Sales, particularly of premium merlot, are inch by inch improving. There are in some places a shortage of merlot now, particularly with the Napa Bordeaux blending crowd. So why this return to a modicum of favor? Well probably the fact that Merlot is a lovely drop. The reputation of merlot had plummeted in the early 2,000s. Not just because of the movie Sideways but because of over production and a glut of poor qualit


MERLOT, oh it's coming back.
Is Merlot coming back? It seems to be. Sales, particularly of premium merlot, are inch by inch improving. There are in some places a shortage of merlot now, particularly with the Napa Bordeaux blending crowd. So why this return to some amount of favor? Well don’t thank those hipster sommeliers or the wine-geek influencers on Instagram. These groups tend towards the more obscure varietal, orange or extra natural is better mentality, and most are in love with every grape but Me