He's very wrong about California wine. He's living in the past. Nobody who knows anything about wine would laugh anymore at someone ordering something from Napa. . .many California wines are better than French wines now. . .
I just went tasting in Sonoma and the Silverado Trail in Napa a few weekends ago--the wine was incredible. . .
And what is wrong with Portuguese wines ?
I have acquired a taste for a kind of sparkling Portuguese wine called vinho verde.
Allen is a product of the 1950's when American intellectuals felt themselves stuck in the land of Howdy Doody and Pat Boone and gazed worshipfully at the Europe of Bergmann, Truffaut, Renoir, Sartre, etc.
I just went tasting in Sonoma and the Silverado Trail in Napa a few weekends ago--the wine was incredible.
Have you been to Paso Robles yet?