Arnie vetoes Zin for state grape
30 Aug 2006 by JR
Howard G Goldberg, New York: Too bad that Jancis’s Oxford Companion to Wine has gone to press. I would have offered it the following explication: The late Thomas P (Tip) O’Neill, a great Speaker of the House of Representatives, coined the aphorism that explains Washington to Americans: ‘All politics is local.’ Winedom will quote it in explaining why Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill designating Zinfandel, which reached the state in the 19th century, as the ‘historic wine of California.’ Gearing up to run for a second term, he clearly chose not to alienate...

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