Don’t Tell Miles, But I’m Not Mad At MERLOT…

Okay, stop calling me names… I’m just sayin’…

I was at the market, picking up some essential supplies (read coffee), and found myself in the wine aisle… And for some reason, I found myself staring at the Markham Merlot that was on sale (with my club card) for $13.99 (regularly $19.99. If you’ve been following the little wine blog here, you know that I like a ’sale’ item.

And then there’s my little supermarket trick…  So I’m looking at the bottle of ‘05 Markham Merlot staring me at the face. What do I do? I reach all the way behind to the back of the shelf, and pull out a lone bottle of ‘04 that somehow has been inadvertently pushed to the back of the stack sometime in the last year (or two?). Now mind you, I have no idea if the ‘04 is better than the ‘05, or if the fact that the bottle has been standing up for an extra year is harmful to the wine, but it makes me feel special. My little secret find. My bottle is aged in the bottle an additional year than the bottle that the next guy is going to pick up.

Still basking in the afterglow of my monumental ‘pulling the wool’ over the supermarket’s eyes, I came home and popped that cork and poured me a glass. What the heck, it’s a Wednesday night…

And I’ll be darned if that ‘04 Markham Merlot wasn’t a tasty glass of wine. A nice woodsy nose, with a rich, fleshy black cherry/plum taste on the palette and firm, round, vanilla-laced tannins O’ Plenty!!! What, are you kidding me? For 14 bucks?

And it was a MERLOT!!!! (Shhh…. Don’t tell Miles).