Merlot: Your Essential Guide, from French Merlot to the California Meritage Blend

Merlot is a grape that has fallen out of favor before wine consumers, especially in the US. Wineries don’t feature the name ‘Merlot’ much on their labels anymore, yet Merlot still not only makes some of the finest and most expensive wines on Earth, but is also an important component in many blends in many wine regions all around the globe (like meritage blends in CA), whether wineries tell you about it or not. So it’s a good piece of the wine puzzle to have in mind.

Here's your essential guide to Merlot, the unfairly disliked grape… Or maybe it is fair, we’ll see.

In this video series that has now become a bit of a Masterclass about everything that you should really know about wine, and our newsletters, we’ve covered a few grape varieties so far. Grapes are of course an essential piece of knowledge to have to understand your vino, just like knowing what a piston is if you want to understand cars, or what a metaphor is to understand literature. We’ve talked about Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Tempranillo, a bit on Sauvignon Blanc and Malbec in Argentina. Here we'll cover all things merlot, from French merlot to the California meritage blend, best merlot wines, worst merlot wines, Australian merlot, Argentine merlot, you name it.

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00:00 - Intro to Merlot Wine
01:51 - Merlot in Bordeaux, France
04:39 - The Two Faces of Merlot
07: 49 - Merlot around the World