What happens when a wine falls from grace? You get a good bottle for $10.By Kelly Alexander Merlot, the Horror Merlot, everyone's favorite red wine in the '90s, reached its trendoid apotheosis when it was name-checked not once but twice on Seinfeld ("The Rye," in January 1996, and "The Yada Yada," in April 1997, in which Kramer memorably uttered: "I live for merlot."). Yep, merlot was hot, it was happening, it was what we all wanted to drink—or what we all wanted to talk about drinking. But, oh, how grape expectations pop. Due to massive overexposure, merlot, a perfectly respectable...
