Wine: Menage a' Trois

[elfs]

So, the wine of the week is Menage a Trois Red, a little wine produced by the Folie a Deux Winery (har har) in, where else, California. It was hardly a challenging or interesting wine. I found it in the Syrah section although it says it's a blend of Syrah, Gwurtzmuller, Reisling, and a few other flavors, but I guess Syrah was the best place to find it. It's a very sweet wine with very little nose, even with a lot of swirling. It has a lot of berry and for some reason, although I have no right to use such a pretentious word I thought of it as "cartoony." It is a party wine, not something to eat over dinner although it doesn't suffer for it, and the best description for it went to fallenpegasus: "It's the perfect wine to drink before doing what the name suggests." I must concur.

(This review is a couple of weeks old. For some reason, I've been writing up but not posting a lot of stuff. There are a number of wine reviews in the "pending" box. Weird, but I've chosen not to back-date it; this isn't exactly time-critical info.)