Merlot Mysteries

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"Merlot Mysteries"
Season	11
Episode	1102
Airdate	October 2, 2017
Writer	Peter Mitchell and Simon McNabb
Director	Don McCutcheon
Guests	Sophie Goulet Jean-Michel Le Gal
Previous	Up From Ashes
Next	8 Footsteps

"Merlot Murdoch" is the second episode of eleventh season and the one hundred fifty-second of the Murdoch Mysteries series. It aired on October 2, 2017.

Summary

After a wine connoisseur is poisoned, Murdoch and Watts uncork fraud and a fledgling industry.

Character Revelations

• Detective Watts instructs the teetotaler Murdoch on the art of wine tasting, in the name of science, of course.
• Rebecca James leaves the City Morgue to begin her own practice in Chatham with Nate Desmond.

Continuity

• Dr. Ogden and Miss James are on first-name basis since Up From Ashes.
• Murdoch gets drunk on wine; first time was in The Green Muse.
• Once again, Crabtree gets background information at the City Records.
• Brackenreid shares his recipe to cure the hangover: tomato juice, raw egg and hot sauce.
• The spectroscope returns to determine the age of the wine; first time used in Concocting A Killer.
• Murdoch's envisioning a crime scene takes on a new dimension.

Trivia

• Cameo appearance by Donald Ziraldo, renowned winemaker and co-founder of Inniskillin Wines.
• Actor Maurice Dean Wint mad his first appearance on Murdoch Mysteries in Mild Mild West.
• Actor Christopher Stanton makes his third appearance on Murdoch Mysteries; the first was in The Tesla Effect, followed by Winston's Lost Night.
• Actor Andrew Gillies was Robert Denman in Twentieth Century Murdoch.

Cast

Main Cast

Yannick Bisson as Detective William Murdoch
Hélène Joy as Dr. Julia Ogden
Thomas Craig as Inspector Thomas Brackenreid
Jonny Harris as Constable George Crabtree

Recurring Cast

Daniel Maslany as Detective Watts
Mouna Traoré as Rebecca James
Jordan Johnson-Hinds as Nate Desmond

Guest Cast

Maurice Dean Wint as Raymond Hatch
Toni Ellwand as Fabiana Firenzo
Christopher Stanton as Baron Trotter
Matthew Gouveia as Ricardo Firenzo
Jean-Michel Le Gal as Jean-Michel Larouche Coutre III
Dom Fiore as Enrico Firenzo
Andrew Gillies as James Merchant

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