Note: I don't usually do this, but as this is a very well-selling wine and it has been in the news recently about arsenic levels, I wanted to address this. First point would be that there is not enough arsenic in there to make anyone ill even remotely to the point of dying. Alcohol poisoning would occur long before and is the much more immediate danger. As we have seen in many, many other areas, this amounts to bad science, more specifically, bad chemistry. Arsenic is literally everywhere, including in the ground. High levels in water, which is more frequently consumed and hopefully devoid of toxic materials, would be a huge negative. Wine is consumed nowhere near as frequently, obviously and has other compounds more pressing, so applying a water standard to wine is patently absurd. The HSC, therefore, fully backs the Wine Institute and all of the producers, as well as the opinions made in these statements:
And now on to this Edition proper:
Ménage à trois means, in a literal sense from French,
“household of three” and was to describe an actual living arrangement, aside
from the more temporary nature of which it is probably more well known in
America. So, in that sense, with its
combination of Zinfandel, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, the name, based on the
French application, is perfectly appropriate. The sexual aspect of that phrase
(in which all three living together are also engaged in carnal relations) also
ties in here, with all three of those winds blending and melding together into
a single unity. Wine itself has long had a history of ties into romance and
eroticism, referred to frequently as the drink of love, another way in which
everything here ties together nicely. Still more interestingly and perhaps
reinforcing the point, this has frequently been the best-selling red wine in the
United States.
This is a wine I wouldn’t hesitate to call delicious and
melds the grapes together very nicely. The density and heavy mouth feel of the
Cab and Zin is very readily apparently, yet it never becomes clunky as the
Merlot does a great job lightening things out and bringing a bit more
fruitiness into the mix. This is one of the smoothest wines out there; let it
air long enough and it becomes quite silky, with a gorgeous finish. There is
not a great deal of astringency here and the tannin bite is very muted overall,
though not gone entirely. There is little to no question in my mind about why
this is the best-selling red or whether it deserves it. It does.
At a $10 spot normally, even though I’ve never seen it on
SPA, this is a Standard as well as one of the better values out there, as long
as you like fairly heavy wines. This should also work well for maturing,
something I will probably try down the road if I ever get set up for it.
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