This is funny, reading this sipping on a cheap Californian wine I got at the local grocery store because it was too late to hit the SAQ ( you see, good wine is

This is funny, reading this sipping on a cheap Californian wine I got at the local grocery store because it was too late to hit the SAQ ( you see, good wine is the prerogative of government retailing in the Belle Province (Quebec), a bit like the Sweedish poster I just read. There's good sides and bad sides to that, one of the bad sides is government workers dont tend to work long hours... oh well). Not sayin californians have not learned a thing or two about wines in the last 100 years; in fact I've drank IMHO outstanding wines from the west coast, especially from Walla Walla valley. The've also nailed the champagne technique 100% in my books. Just saying that the guys in Bordeaux and in Piedmont have been at the red wine thing for the last 2000 years, pre any marketing-to-unsuspecting-masses techniques. The best analogy I've read here is music; sometimes musak is fine (the elevator, the grocery store etc) sometimes I wish I could tune it out. YMMV. But I just cant stop telling Charlie Parker or Dave Brubeck from the rest; so dont listen to them if you dont want to be disappointed on your next elevator ride! :-) Cheers!! F