Musings and an Interesting Coincidence

Musings: After our recent trip to Long Island and tasting many delicious Bordeaux-style wines including some wonderful Merlot blends, my husband and I were talking about the movie Sideways and how Merlot was so disdained by the character Miles, that it fell out of favor with the wine drinking public. Toward the end of the movie, Miles is sitting in a fast food restaurant drinking his 1961 Cheval Blanc, a blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot. The only wine that would make it more ironic would be if Miles was drinking Petrus, a wine made almost entirely of Merlot grapes. Don't you think the joke is on us, the movie viewer?
An Interesting Coincidence: We are latecomers to the PBS show Downton Abbey and while watching the First Season on DVD which we borrowed from my friend, we noticed an episode involving a bottle of wine. It didn't take us long to figure out that it was a bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild, confirmed by locating this article in the Quarterly Review of Wines:
Whining About Downton Abbey---Where is the Wine?
While we had the bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild, up close and personal, we noticed a certain similarity to another wine that we had on our counter that we also enjoy drinking (parenthetically, we don't drink Chateau Lafite Rothschild, but once in a millenium). The coincidence may only be in the eye of the beholder, but I thought it was interesting.