White Merlot

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A few weeks ago I went to a friend's apartment before several of us headed out for dinner. My friend doesn't (cannot) drink alcohol, but served us a very sweet, cloying, and uninteresting wine. Unfortunately, she asked us how we liked the wine, and several of us hemmed and hawed, saying it was "a bit sweet." The wine turned out to be "white merlot" in a jug.

Maybe there is some good "white merlot" out there, but that experience will make it a good, long time before I look for it in the stores.

I wonder if "white merlot" is just wine made primarily from merlot grapes, with no or little exposure to skins and other tannin agents?

Or maybe it's not made from the merlot at all, but called "merlot" because of the trendy cachet and popular accessibility of the juice?