Wine Regions Feeling Blue

In a political way, anyways. There's an interesting article up on The San Francisco Chronicle's website discussing the coincidental trend that the Blue States in Tuesday's elections make approximately 99.4% of all American wines. The article's author, Jon Bonné, is a pretty funny guy. He makes a clever observation that - in this election anyway - Democrats have lived up to the hard-to-shake image of wine-loving, French sympathizing elitists. To be fair, a lot of places that don't make wine went blue this year as well. Follow the link for the entire piece, but here's a little taste to wet your whistle.

"Rumors continue that Obama is more of a wine drinker, which I wholeheartedly endorse - so long as he's not one of those Nixonian types who serves the plonk to guests while hiding the good Bordeaux for himself. (Fine, fine. So Nixon also brought Schramsberg to China along with diplomacy.) But watching the election maps turn blue Tuesday night set me wondering where the wine-producing states fell on the electoral map."