Wine With Leslie: Some California wines to toast the US inauguration

— or raise a glass of €275 17-year-old bourbon to Biden
Wine With Leslie: Some California wines to toast the US inauguration

Leslie's selections this week include a couple of inexpensive cheery wines and five more serious wines from lesser-known California AVAs

A mini-focus on the USA this week to mark the swearing-in of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America — and let’s not forget his Vice-President, Kamala Harris.

May 2021 will mark 45 years since the Judgement of Paris tasting which saw Californian Cabernet Sauvignon triumph over red Bordeaux and Californian Chardonnay beat out fine Burgundy. The tasting has been re-staged frequently and California almost always wins and there is no doubt that the finest wines of California really can be sublime.

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