Adding red wine to a soup

We don't really use wine with cooking, when we do it's with a fish or chicken dish and we use white wine. So I'm making a veggie soup (sort of like a ministrone) and I have 3 bottles of red wine, we really don't like red wine but my sister gave them to us. One is a South African wine, not sure what kind of red, and ther others are a merlot. Would adding a 1/2 or 1/4 cup of merlot to the soup be gross? It has beef stock in it, assorted veggies and I will be adding chickpeas and red kidney beans, and pasta.

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My cousin adds red wine when making tomato sauce.

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I'll add merlot to my stew...so I say yes.

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I am late--you have probably already had your soup==but we always add a little bit of red wine to soups that have beef broth base.