Vin de Napkin - Twofer for Tuesday

Two wine-related items that are really bouncing around with a startling amount of re-occurrence are the incessant holiday-centric wine events with the no-brainer wine pairings and this Obama wine thing that is quickly making its way through the corridors of gossip to become stated fact.

First, the wine and holiday thing.  If I am a winery, why would I do all of my events AT THE EXACT SAME TIME AS EVERYBODY ELSE?  I can almost set my watch based on the activity and emails I see related to Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Fourth of July barbecue with either a winery event or a piece of content about food and wine matching.

If I’m in charge of a winery and marketing, I would go exactly upstream, in through the out door, and do none of that.  How about something original?  If I am an Editor of anything that prints anything, I would call a moratorium on inspid “wine with chocolate” articles.

On another curmudgeonly note—it has now become true.  A non-wine drinker asked me if I knew that Obama had a 1000 bottle wine cellar and was a wine aficionado. 

Ahem, it can only be a matter of time before this Obama and wine thing turns up on Urbanlegends.com.  As far as I know, an article mentioned he had room in a cellar (that probably pre-existed him living in the house) for a 1000 bottles and he was photographed for People magazine with a bottle of Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay in the background.  Circumstantial evidence does not make a case, even if it would be nice if he was a wine lover!

Finally, I left the third Vin de Napkin open for the second caption.  Leave a comment with a suggestion and I’ll print the best one—remember Vin de Napkin is more social commentary then comic, so humorously clever works great!