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August 2009
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Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst's penchant for a particular wine may have made its way into its own piece of legislation, according to this piece in the AP. A bill on its way to the state Senate would let Texans carry their own bottles of wine into liquor-carrying restaurants and then leave with whatever they don't drink. Industry representatives have taken to calling the legislation the "Dewhurst bill."No one we've been asking can name which wine this is, even though now we're all curious about it. "I haven't been drinking with him in a while," said state Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston. 3 CommentsLeave a comment |
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The wine in question is Rombauer Chardonnay. Not a hard wine to come by. This is probably a restaurant which doesnt want to carry this wine on their list. Theres more than enough over oaked chardonnay out there, and its hardly complimentary to fine dining food. He also drinks Far Niente Chardonnay.... ICE COLD. Thus numbing the tongue before all that fresh oak wrecks your ability to taste anything.
This bill isnt about a guy trying to get his 1937 Latour into a restaurant. This is about a restaurant wanting to carry wines that compliment their food, not overpower it. If you dont care what your food tastes like, smoke a cigar and eat a Big Mac.
I thought Dewey's favorite whine was, "give me voter ID bill to take to the wingnuts"
For the record, Far Niente Chardonnay spends only 9 months in French oak, of which only 65% is new, and undergoes no malolactic fermentation. Is hardly an "over-oaked" chardonnay. By contrast, many Napa chards are in 100% new French oak, and 100% malo.
Chassagne-Montrachet can spend 17 months in oak ... anyone think burgundy is over-oaked?
Oak is only a tool, not a bogeyman.