Awsome Winemaker or War Criminal, You Decide!

[RAD]

>>A) I would suspect it would be hard to FIND a glass of Vitiano in the above setting as it is more of an export brand<<

I was using Vitiano metaphorically to signify a wine indicative of the topic at hand (I try not to drink cheap Italian wine, so couldn't think of any off-hand [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img] ).

>>B) As our store is immediately adjacent to a hotel favored by Euro Tourists, I talk to people everyday who are CERTAIN that Las Vegas and Universal City and Disneyland are America at its essence.......

doesn't make them right, Roberto<<

Then it appears what we're ultimately talking about is the difference between good taste and bad. And as far as misplaced notions of the essence of what America is; well, just as I instinctively distrust notions of "source" and "origin", I also dislike the idea of "essence."

Disneyland may not be the essence of America; perhaps Las Vegas isn't either. What, then, IS the essence? The Rocky Mountains? A corn-fed heifer on the way to the slaughter in Iowa? A slice of apple pie? Or, enologically speaking, a glass of scuppernong wine from Virginia?

It's like the old Tootsie Pop commercial: "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? One? Two? CRACK! Three." How many wines must one drink to acheieve the essence of Italy? A nebbiolo or barolo from piemonte? A chianti from Toscana? An old amarone?

--RAD (a sophist who envisions one scenario of a perfect evening with a big glass of Sangiovese and a good argument; Dad always said I should have been a lawyer [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/rolleyes.gif[/img] )


[This message has been edited by RAD (edited 10-03-2000).]