by Bob Hower » Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:17 am
From M. Charpoutier. $12 from Whole Foods. This is French?? You'd never know it by tasting it. Sweet and jammy and distinctly new world, after a glass I figured this would be an interesting thing to compare with the "Menage a Trois" (which as you no doubt know is NOT French) that my wife was drinking. Pretty close, though this one has just a bit more tannic bite to it. More and more the search for inexpensive daily drinkers leads to this sort of thing - I'm sure it will work very nicely for a braise, but I don't feel much like finishing it. Perhaps Monsieur Charpoutier should be deported.