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Cheers, Pol Roger. I’ll Drink to That
Yes, it’s a little early for toasting, but nonetheless, let’s raise an effervescent glass to Winston Churchill and Roger Kimball. Reportedly a Churchillian favorite, and likely a Rogerian one also, Pol Roger Cuvee is snazzy stuff.
When questioned, “How early is too early?” “Any time before your eyes open is too early” seems temperate enough.
Roger Kimball recently received a message from a friend, a “Trump-skeptic,” about tariffs on wine and Champagne. “This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.” Ooh, big mistake. There’s no Champagne in the US. Only in France, corrects Mr. Kimball. And it comes from a region long known as Champagne, where historians believe Romans first planted vines.
Yes, in the US, there is a sparkling wine business that follows the méthode champenoise (aka: traditional method), an intricate process, holds forth Mr. Kimball, of “ vinification and of getting the bubbles into the wine.”
In Spectator, Mr. Kimball blames his popping open a bottle of bubbly on his versions of a Pavlovian response to seeing the word Champagne on many missives inquiring if Kimball is worried. Kimball doesn’t rise to the indignation that Trump’s proposal will smack a 200% tariff on the source of the beverage. Still, is it time for Kimball to reconsider his support for the “Bad Orange Man,” especially since Kimball is about to realize the costs to himself? Personally.
Despite antics at the EU, self-preservation is alive and well in Europe. Europe needs to drop its 50% tariff on American-made whiskey. How hard could that be? No need to make a big deal of it. After all, at the end of the day, there’s always available Pol Roger.
Roger Kimball is secure in the knowledge that as expensive as Pol Roger now is, it will not become more so.
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