We've tested supermarket Merlot red wines and market them all out of fiveCredit: Getty Wine expert Helena Nicklin ... it’s one to splash into your chilli or stew and have a glug of yourself ...

When you get tired of hating on Merlot, this list is here for you. Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel ... Interestingly, a great deal of what pretty much everyone thought was Merlot in Chile turned out to be Carménère, but this wasn’t formally ...

Sebastiani is behind our wine of the week winner — the Highway 12, 2019 Merlot, Sonoma County, 14.2%, $28. It’s a seamless merlot with aromas and flavors of black raspberry, plum and vanilla.

The word Merlot is derived from the word merle, which translates from the original French to describe the common blackbird. The grapes are very dark in color while ripening and maturing ...

“Sideways,” the character comedy that took the wine world by storm, turns 20 this week. Director Alexander Payne says he never could have foreseen its impact — with a Sideways hotel and ...

Taylors Estate Merlot from South Australia’s Clare Valley triumphed again when it won another trophy and a “double gold” rating at the San Francisco International Wine Competition.