In 2003, wine growers in California planted some 840 acres of merlot vines, adding to an already enormous supply of the popular grape variety. That same year, less than 600 acres of pinot noir vines ...

“Well, that’s a little old fashioned,” said my oh-so-contemporary friend when I told her that I was thinking about making merlot my go-to grape for the upcoming holiday season. And she is kind of ...

I have an interesting relationship with Alexander Payne's 2004 film "Sideways," which I recently screened for my LifeQuest class. A few years before the movie came out, my wife Karen and I took a wine ...

She eventually became intrigued, however, and looked at several vineyards before finally picking one she could get excited about. The wine "is a really big, ripe Merlot that has the potential to be a ...

Merlot has always been caught in the shadow of Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa Valley. After all, Cabernet Sauvignon is the wine that has brought Napa Valley critical praise from around the world, and it's ...