This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf Peju Winery, one of the #MerlotMe event sponsors. Complimentary wine was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. However, all opinions expressed here are my own. As a food blogger, a huge number of our meals are photo ready and paired with wine. But not always. Sometimes, I'm sitting in a hotel, eating cold leftover Chinese food from lunch, and drinking wine from a plastic cup. At least it was good wine! We had spent nearly twelve hours at a robotics competition. The robot was broken. The boys were working on the code for the following day. I just wanted to take a shower and read a book. But I was grateful for the bottle of Merlot that Peju Winery had sent me for #MerlotMe. Though this is a California winery, it was completely new to me. And I was happy to make its acquaintance. Peju was started by Tony and Herta Peju in the early 80s with a laser focus on b...