Restaurant Wine List

[RAD]

Oh boy--this has the potential to polarize the board in a similar fashion to the Bush-Gore dichotomy in Florida!

I've got to side with Winoweenie on this one. There's more then enough wines from Sonoma to complement any dish on the menu of the restaurant, it would seem. To me, a Sonoma-only wine offering underscores the very notion of "terroir"--if I'm eating at an upscale Sonoma restaurant specializing in locally grown, organic products, I'd want a local wine with which to to savor the local cuisine. By the same token, when I'm touring the Tuscan hillside and find a little trattoria in which to eat dinner, do I order an Aussie shiraz? Of course not. When I'm in the pays Basque, do I sip a Napa Valley offering? I wouldn't dream of it.

Bear in mind here that Sonoma is COUNTRY, and people are going there to experience just that--the local terroir--not a cosmopolitan ambience that they can find an hour south (by my driving speed, at least [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img] ) in San Francisco.

RAD