Wine review: Menage a Trois Red 2007

The menage (about $10), from Folie a Deux, is a very confusing wine, which has nothing to do with its double entendre marketing. It ?s a red blend from California that isn ?t heavy, tannic or alcoholic, which is so rare as to be worth mentioning. And the wine is supposed to have been aged in oak, but I ?ll be damned if I could taste it. In fact, it tasted like a steel-aged Beaujolais.

Plus, it ?s cheap and tasty. The blend of zinfandel, cabernet sauvignon and merlot is quite approachable, quite jammy and even juicy. It ?s a style of wine that ?s almost old-fashioned in California, harkening back to the days before Wine Magazines and point scores. Drink this with barbecue, fall picnic food like grilled corn on the cob, or even takeout pizza.