26. How does it make you feel to know that California makes better wine than France?
Honest answer? sad. coz it's true. Lots of incredible good wines in almost every country, California, France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Chile, just to name a few. But as French wines are only about the soil (no blends unless the the ones from the place itself), I'd say that most average Californian, Chilian, South African wines are better than the French where the best is always right next to the worse.
We have had a little wine club going on on shows for a while now, it all started in Curacao in 2003 (memorable night with Greg, Gary, David, Chad, Herve and a few other wine conoisseurs) and since then we always find room to share wine from our respective countries. More recently, Fred from Braincash entered the game with good port, can't wait for the few other I know who like good wine (Platinum Dan feel free to bring a few bottle to the next show!) to step in! Best year was 2005 where Greg was sick and I had to go back with ALL the wine to France. I had a tasting night at home with my French friends and they would have died before admiting that the FarNiente we just had was better than out Chateau Figeac, but IT WAS
