Asimov wrote yesterday about the many San Francisco restaurants dedicated to cooking with local ingredients that paradoxically feature European rather than California wine lists. Explaining this, one restaurateur let slip a California-centric view of the wine world that drives the rest of us crazy: “At Slanted Door, you need low-alcohol, high acid wines with residual sugar, and they don’t come from the New World”. Let's see now, those kinds of wines do come from New York, which is part of the New World; from Michigan, which is part of the New World; from Canada, which is part of the New World; from Chile...
