Sometime last Christmas, Barbie and I opted to buy a few bottles of wine form her office mate, Pinky, who went into selling different bottles. Among all the bottles she had available, she asked us to try this one in particular. The R.Merlo wine, according to her, is a good brand. It's semi-sweet and has good body. If there is any possible downside to this bottle, it's the fact that the wine has some sediments at it's bottom... something you wont know or taste until you're almost at the bottle's bottom.
Apparently, she got it right - everything she said was true about this bottle of wine... yes, including the sediment (which I will refer to, for lack of a better word) - though don't get me wrong... these are not dirt, rather... they're remains of grapes that were - for whatever reason, not filtered out. Is this because the grapes were introduced post fermentation and right after bottling? Does it become part of the taste? So in that manner, isn't having the sediments a good thing?
The bottle in the picture happens to be the second bottle of R.Merlo I've had (with Barbie, of course), albeit, this time... with Bea. We finished this bottle within the hour (or two), which goes to show that the ladies did enjoy this particular wine. Health benefits aside, we wanted to relax and enjoy the day, and I can't think of a better way to do just that. Nice part is, I've got at least one more bottle like this in store for a future occasion.
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