Posted on 10/05/08
Why malbec is the new shiraz (and blows merlot away)
If they made a sequel to Sideways, details would have to be updated. The salaries of Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen would be renegotiated thanks to their Oscar-nominated performances the first time around. Scenes shot at the Hitching Post would, for realism's sake, have to depict hordes of tourists now that the California restaurant/winery has become a hot spot. And that famous diatribe against merlot ("If anyone orders merlot, I'm leaving") would have to be reaimed, at malbec.
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