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THE French Laundry Margarita? Or Crocker & Starr Sauvignon Blanc: Margarita in a Bottle
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!
