French Vintner Creates 'Obama Cuvée'

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

French Vintner Creates 'Obama Cuvée'

While Germany opted for creating the dubious Obama Fingers, France has gone a more tasteful route. A female vintner, originally from Africa, has created an Obama wine -- and is donating all the profits to an NGO in Darfur.

The culinary world decided to celebrate the election of Barack Obama as United States president with some strange and possibly questionable products, including the Obama Fingers fried chicken snack, but now the rarefied world of wine is trying to get in on the act.

French winemaker Angela Bousquet-Keita, who hails originally from Guinea in Africa, has created the Obama cuvée (or vintage wine) to celebrate the election of the first African-American to the White House.

Bousquet-Keita, who believes she is the only black female winemaker in the entire country, described how she felt a "moment of ecstasy" when Obama won the election. "It was the advent of a world that I had always dreamed of for my children," she told the French daily Le Monde.

While she intends to charge a steep €150 ($198) for three bottles of the wine, Bousquet-Keita says all the profits will go to an NGO working in the Darfur region of Sudan. That gesture was inspired by the fact that she has employed refugees from Darfur to work in her vineyard for the past few years.

She hopes to be able to present the president with a bottle personally when he visits France in June. Made from three different grapes, she says the wine should improve with age: "It will be much better when served during his second term."

[Nagishkaw 510]

[The_Dude 1,142]

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

maybe they should serve the wine to the voters, that's about the only way he'll get a second term.

[The_Dude 1,142]

maybe they should serve the wine to the voters, that's about the only way he'll get a second term.

Have you been drinking the wine, or just watching the nutballs at these teabag parties?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There was a bit of controversy out here with a fast food restaurant that has unfortunately chosen to rename itself "Obama Fried Chicken".

Not as bad as the baker with his "racist" cookies, but still...

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

maybe they should serve the wine to the voters, that's about the only way he'll get a second term.

Have you been drinking the wine, or just watching the nutballs at these teabag parties?

just the nutbags here drinking the koolaide

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

maybe they should serve the wine to the voters, that's about the only way he'll get a second term.

Do you still have some warranty left on that crystal ball of yours? It seems to be broken.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I would think that the Pro-Obama hysteria in Europe is proof positive that Europeans are not anti-American, as much as anti-Bush.

Edited April 16, 2009 by Private Pike

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

maybe they should serve the wine to the voters, that's about the only way he'll get a second term.

Do you still have some warranty left on that crystal ball of yours? It seems to be broken.

as you seem to be gazing into one with pink glasses, you might wanna start looking for that sales receipt.