THE French Laundry Margarita? Or Crocker & Starr Sauvignon Blanc: Margarita in a Bottle
July 13, 2008 at 8:15 pm 2 comments
I went to dinner last night at the French Laundry with a mission–I was going to order a margarita. Who drinks a margarita at such a fine dining establishment with a tome of wines that lacks rival? Me. I’m pleading guilty to that one.
In my quest for the ultimate margarita, I need to know how top shelf top shelf can be. If I am going to taste top shelf, French Laundry is high up on the tippy top of the top shelf, and seemed like a great place to look.
Sadly, as I had feared and many of you might know, the French Laundry has a limited liquor license. Although I could not order a margarita, the sommelier brought me a wine he described as a “margarita made with passionfruit, and drinking this wine was like having a Margarita in a Bottle”:
A 2007, Crocker & Starr Sauvignon Blanc. It was a beautiful, delicious wine, and if you can’t have the margarita, it is a good, maybe more respectable for fine dining, second choice.
It was so tasty, that I am going to pick up Margarita in a Bottle to enjoy later this summer. I recommend that, if you’re a margarita lover, you do the same. Have a little French Laundry Margarita experience right at home. Cheers!
Entry filed under: Drinking Out, Wine Winners. Tags: Crocker & Starr Sauvignon Blanc, Drinking Out, Eating Out, French Laundry Margarita, The French Laundry, White Wine.
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aanraku | September 21, 2008 at 11:00 pm
We dined with a party of ten in Sept. 2006 and 2007. At our 2007 seating they forgot the promised birthday cake and 5 of the 9 dishes were the same as the previous year. When we emailed and asked them to vary the menu, Thomas Keller called us personally and said, “If you don’t like what I serve, don’t come.” We cancelled and will now dine at Gary Danko’s in S.F., a much better restaurant. French Laundry is SO not worth what they charge you.
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Mermaid | September 22, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Wow! I’m just wondering how you got a reservation for 10! I have to say, if you’re a vegetarian, do not assume the vegetable tasting menu is all vegetables. You need to alert the waitstaff. Also, I think you get a better meal if you are not a vegetarian…the food is really geared toward the courageous omnivore.