This homemade Red Wine Ice Cream is flavored with Merlot and vanilla beans.

Boozy, fruity and refreshing, this fruit salad is dressed with honey/merlot syrup! Unbelievable flavor combination in one big fruity bowl!

Hearty Beef Stew – the addition of a good bold red adds an amazing complexity and depth of flavor to this delicious beef stew.

Merlot Poached Asian Pear and Blue Cheese Panini.

Filet mignon cooked to perfection and topped with a Merlot mushroom sauce.

Cherry Merlot Winesicles – probably the most delicious thing to happen to popsicle molds.

Grilled Ribeye with Mushroom Merlot Sauce

Blackberry and Brie Grilled Cheese

Chicken sausage, mushrooms, and peppers simmered in merlot then served over creamy goat cheese grits. A quick, comforting, gluten free meal.

Merlot Cherry Cupcakes with Sweet White Cream Cheese Frosting.

Red Wine Poached Pears make an elegant and delicious dessert served with its reduced syrupy spiced poaching liquid.

Delicious merlot sauce makes these special. Perfect holiday appetizer.

Gourmet burger stuffed with blue cheese and bacon. Served with Merlot Sauce (recipe included).

Stay cool these summer days with Merlot sorbet!

Pairing wine with cheese is no different than pairing wine with any other food. So let’s review my super-basic food and wine pairing tips.

How to make The Perfect Breaded Pork Chop, with Merlot Cherry Onion Jam.

Some days are hard… Have a glass (or 3) of cherry berry sangria.

This rustic harvest bread with merlot grapes is jammy, savory, and woodsy all at the same time.

Cherry Cabernet Brownies. Drunken cherries in a dense fudgey brownie.

Chocolate Merlot Cupcakes with a Merlot Frosting

Perfect Red Sangria ~ easy and oh-so-flavorful!

Triple berry Sangria with a hint of ginger – a Red Lobster copycat recipe