Winestate Magazine May June 2014

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aftertasteELISABETH KINGPolitical plonk - wine tiesbind at the highest levelDIPLOMACY is a fine art and wine plays fund new buys of $91,000 to be laid down white wine with her meals as well as orangea starring role in ensuring international for future state occasions. juice. His Royal Highness prefers gin andrelations run smoothly. Kevin Rudd tonic or lager to champagne before mealspresented a gift of Australian wine to Pope The British Foreign Office insists that or during the day.”Benedict XVI during a private audience the government wine cellar is an officialwith the pontiff in 2009. The wine cellars diplomatic tool, in spite of The Mirror The world’s most powerful woman,of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs newspaper calling David Cameron a plonker Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany,may lean heavily on France but they also for uncorking numerous bottles of wine knows what she likes, too. She loves opera,include a spread of bottlings from other during his fifth holiday of the year in 2011. French red wine, soccer, mountain walksmajor wine-producing countries in case their Things are tougher in France, though. French and shopping at discount supermarketsnational leaders come to call - rieslings from president Francois Hollande auctioned off such as Aldi. At official state dinners though,Germany, chardonnays from Australia and 1200 bottles from the Elysee Palace’s wine only the best German wines are served.merlots from California. On the night Julia cellar last year - a 10th of the presidentialGillard lost her job, the former PM appeared collection - in order to re-stock with more In contrast to her own taste for priceycasually dressed, a glass of wine in hand, modestly-priced wines. A strategy in line French bottlings, Frau Merkel is a strongat the door of The Lodge to tell the small with cost-cutting efforts to bring down the supporter of mass brands such ascrowd of 100 supporters – “Don’t let this nation’s deficit of 87 billion euros. Rotkappchen, the leading sparkling winedisillusion you - shit happens”. producer in Germany. Hailing from the Virginie Routis, head sommelier at the old East Germany herself, the chancellor Not at the British Foreign Office-run wine Elysee, selected bottlings available in was on hand to celebrate the company’scellar beneath Lancaster House in London too small quantities to be served at the 150th anniversary in 2006, praising itsit doesn’t. In February, the tasting notes large state dinners that are the trademark performance as a “success story ofof what ranks as Number 10 Downing of the French government. But there privatization” following German reunification.Street’s private hoard were released under were still plenty of rich pickings for thethe Freedom of Information Act. Sixty-one wine lovers of the world who descended An event that passed without incident,pages offered details of the 35,527-bottle on the Drouot auction house in Paris, unlike her visit to the famous Cricova winestash, including a 1961 Corton Cote de including a 1936 Chateau Latour and a cellars in Moldova which boast 120km ofBeaune described as “a national treasure” 1990 Chateau Petrus. labyrinthine tunnels and hosted Russianwith the modifier – “Use with extreme caution president Vladimir Putin’s 50th birthdayfor heads of state. Fabulous wine”. It’s amazing the sell-off hadn’t occurred party. As Merkel’s motorcade drove away, earlier. Hollande’s attention-getting a protester lobbed an incendiary device at Not that David Cameron’s government predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, is a her bullet-proof limo.is backward in trying to impress their teetotaller. A lifestyle choice that didn’toverseas counterparts. In 2012, Government stop him sending shock waves through But if wine is the ultimate high-level socialHospitality, which administers the cellar, Buckingham Palace when he asked to see the grease as the Brits believe, it can also allowsigned off on 5547 bottles of wine - a 20 per wine list for a state dinner at Windsor Castle in nations to make personal gestures. At thecent increase on the year before. All above 2008. Like the Foreign Office cache, Windsor state dinner to honour Francois Hollande’sboard, of course, for a year that saw a flood of Castle’s 17th century wine cellar is stuffed visit to the US in February, where theinternational high-flyers visiting the UK for the with some of the world’s greatest vintages. French prez turned up solo following hisOlympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. split with former French First lady, Valerie The Queen, like her mother, enjoys a drink Trierweiler. The White House wine list was But the days of over-indulgence without or two. According to the Royal household, strictly American but three of the bottlingsan iron-clad reason ended in 2010 when a prospective hosts are given guidelines were made by French-born vignerons -review recommended that the cellar should on what to serve when Her Maj comes to Claude Thibaut of Virginia’s Charlottesville,become a self-funding project by selling off dine. “Neither the Queen nor the Duke of Gilles Nicaut of Washington State’s Chestersome of its prized items to buy new stock. Edinburgh likes oysters” the directive reads. Kidder and Luc Morlet of Morlet FamilyLast year, 54 bottles were sold, including “The Queen often drinks a glass of red or Vineyards in California.a case of Chateau Petrus, for $117,000 ton e x t i s s u e : An international tasting of cabernet & Bordeaux blend varietals wings its way to you next issue. Plus, Clare Valley, Tasmania, McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek and Fleurieu, and South Island (NZ).154 W I N E S TAT E May/June 2014

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