The no politics rule is about to be broken, because I need to make it clear that I sympathize COMPLETELY with the sentiments expressed here, but come on, already! Just who exactly do these guys think they're hurting by pouring out the '86 Margaux and the '95 Dom Perignon?
In all, Tim Wright and Tommy Cortopassi, co-owners of the restaurant, unceremoniously dumped 12 bottles of vintage French wine worth about $1,000 into a white plastic bucket.I've tried to make this point before, elsewhere, and I'll try again here, so listen up, all 3 of you. Boycotts are stupid and usually end up hurting the wrong people. The people who make their living from growing grapes in France, many of whom can't afford to drink their own wines (although that certainly isn't true of, say, Corinne Mentzelopoulos) aren't the ones making foreign policy. But if you feel you need to punish them anyway, or to deprive the French government of the tax revenue from the wine you buy, don't buy it! "The French" have already been paid for the bottles that went down the drain in Reno last week. They couldn't care less if that wine passed through a human digestive system on its way to the sewer. And I'd bet some poor American shmuck is going to end up getting the cost of those wines added to his dinner tab. Let's get real here, folks!
Wright and Cortopassi poured with gusto on the sidewalk outside their front door on South Virginia Street to protest the continued opposition of France in the United Nations to the U.S. campaign against Iraq.
Okay. Well. We now return you to our regularly scheduled blog.
