“Afterglow Merlot.” Doesn’t that just roll off your tongue? Walla Walla makes some of the best Merlots on the planet and this ravishing beauty flexes her muscles with power and grace.

As twilight fades to the smoldering purple of night, there is a moment of change to Mother Nature, as the

ecstasy of the union between the earth and the sun is released and the dark dreamy nightfall wraps its

velveteen satin around the celestial body of the planet bringing transcendent peace. And that waning shift

from an ongoing eruption of emblazoned light and heat to the languid sleepiness of night? That, my love - that is the Afterglow.

This merlot is just like that but while in repose in a bath filled to the brim with rose water and being fed swollen and ripe strawberries smothered in white chocolate crème.