Tom and Melody’s wine blog

Red Bicyclette is a French import by Gallo aimed at what could be called the Yellow Tail market in the U.S. The cute wine label and the name Gallo could put off us Yellow Tail drinkers (who don’t like to think of ourselves as Yellow Tail drinkers), but this wine is quite good. With rich dark-fruit taste, chocolate overtones, and sufficient acidity, this wine could easily be mistaken for one of the $20 California cabernets that we’ve been drinking lately. (Although syrah is said to be synonymous with shiraz, this wine does not have the peppery flavor of many Australian shirazs. It tastes more like a cabernet.)