We’ve had a running wish for the past few years at Waugh Cellars, that before George W leaves office to learn reading and writing, we’d have the pleasure of serving him a bottle of our wine.
And although I’m not surprised by this, I never knew that The White House has their very own wine guru. Now the trick will be to get it into his hands before January 2009.
Why our wine you say? Take a gander…
If ever there was an appropriate wine to serve, frankly, every night at the Bush White House, ours would be it. Imagine, George and Laura sitting down to a leisurely dinner of Pepper-crusted sirloin steak and popping a bottle of our Cabernet. The President might say, “The wine is a mouthful of bright blackberry fruit, which shows a richness and softness in the middle palate. Silky tannins deliver another burst of fruit as the wine’s finish shows all the varietal characteristics of classic Cabernet Sauvignon both in structure and aging potential.”
Or something like that.
Laura would love our Riesling or Chardonnay and could serve either in the late afternoon when she entertains her girlfriends and gets set to flick on the Tivo and watch last week’s eposide of “Gossip Girl.”
Maybe I’d be invited to come in and explain the Friends of Waugh Cellars Club to them, ensuring that after they leave the place they’ve called home for the last eight years, they’ll never go without our limited production, highly allocated wines.
And maybe, just maybe, the White House will commission Ryan to become America’s official winemaker where we’ll craft a new brand for the next President, perhaps something fresh and exciting, a wine with great character that harmoniously blends fruit from several competing sources, a wine that will stand the test of time even though unproven at first, to become one of the best wines ever.
The only thing we’ll have to work on is the name though. I’m not sure “B.O.” quite works…
I have a different take. The wine is too good to allow someone with such an unrefined palate and an IQ of less than 80 to taste it. Those who destroy our country and economy do not deserve such a fine wine. And the quote you imagined Bush would say? He can’t even pronounce the word “tannins.”
Good Post Eric.
“Dubbya” is in recovery and while he may raise a glass in toast at formal dinners, he will not put it to his lips.
Whatever you name the B.O. wine, it should be something young, brash and smoke-tainted. Perhaps a petit verdot, petit syrah or a cool climate syrah (but smoke-tainted and aged in high toast oak). I would suggest tannat as appropriate because it is as uncommon as the candidate
If it ends up needing to be a J.M wine, you can just buy up some bulk wine from multiple vintages and AVAs, run it through a highly oxidative regimen and age it in 100% new American oak for 2 years.
You HAVE to check this out:
http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2008/09/change.html