Wine and Race

Three weeks ago, my wife and I spent a terrific four-day long weekend in Sedona, Arizona. We'd never been there before, and it looks like it'll be a while before we go there again.

We stayed at a delightful B&B, took in gorgeous vistas, did a couple nifty side trips, managed to avoid the New Age Sedona vortex people entirely, and had no complaints. Until the government of the fine state of Arizona turned out to be run by racist idiots. That Grand Canyon vacation idea has gone onto a very back burner. 

One of the things we discovered in our little visit was that Arizona does indeed have a small, thriving wine industry -- not just tourists-will-drink-anything wine, but darn good wine. I was planning to give it a plug. Later.

Many of us can remember back to a time when South African wine was off every decent wine lover's list as part of the international boycott of the apartheid regime.  And by golly, the boycott worked. So Blind Muscat suggests that besides doing whatever you can to protest the madness in Arizona, pop the cork (more likely, twist the screwcap) on a nice bottle of South African wine, and raise a toast to what outside pressure can do.

Comments

[jules older]

Good on ya, Tim. Like you, we're travel writers, and we too ain't gonna travel-write about Arizona no more, no more.

Not while this law and the Birther Bill (that could keep the President of the United States off the ballot in Arizona) are in place.

Jules and Effin Older

[Mark's Best Wine Club]

Yeah, it would be incredibly hard for me to support anything tied to the political establishment in Arizona. It's too bad that they are attempting to solve a short term problem with a long term solution and it doesn't bode well for this country in general.

Nicely put Tim, hopefully a resounding amount of pressure from outside the state can help to get this law repealed which is only favored by 51% of their residents.