Why Mexican wine specifically? I set out to see if I could discover the reason, but first I had to find some actual Mexican wine. I’d been hearing for years that the wines of Baja, California were getting better and better, but when I scoured local liquor stores to find examples, I came up empty. Chalk it up to New York’s liquor stores being so small, or maybe Baja wines are still too obscure.
Eventually, I stumbled on a bottle at LaNell’s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a place that specializes in organic wines, female-made wines, and New York State bourbons. The wine was a Jubileo 2005, made in Guadalupe, Baja, Mexico, a desiccated valley with 20 wineries, 40 miles southeast of Tijuana. The wine is a Meritage, which means that it’s a Bordeaux-style red made with a combination of grapes (usually including cabernet sauvignon and merlot, among others) permitted by California, U.S.A.’s Meritage Association. The winemaker is Laura Zamora, who qualifies as something of a Mexican winemaking superstar, and some of her vines – which require no irrigation, a big plus in Baja’s arid climate – are 60 years old, making them Mexico’s oldest.
He even kinda/sorta comes up with a plausible read of the tune!
Any word yet on the significance of the pillow fighting cuties in the video?
ReplyDeleteI think we need to research Katrina and the Wave's "Red Wine and Whiskey" which has always seemed to me to have a certain South of the Border quality to it.
ReplyDeleteI hope the conclusion we're supposed to reach isn't that Adam Schlesinger some kind of elitist oenophile.
ReplyDeleteOr god forbid a Chardonnay swiller like that other guy who writes here.