Cheese Toast IV: The Merlot Intervention

One thing I'm sick and doggone tired of is merlot wines from California that all taste the same, and I mean like "red wine with oak" or "cabernet junior." I taste a couple of these wines every week. A major problem is that merlot is indeed so closely linked with cabernet sauvignon because in Bordeaux and many other of the world's wine regions it is ble…