The 30 participants each designed their own sparkling-wine blend from among 250 base wines, and attended three seminars on pairing sparkling wines with caviar, raw oysters, calamari and beef.
And as much as the right wants to turn Mr Obama into a blend of Karl Marx and Huey Newton, he is at base a rather cautious pragmatist an approach that reflects not just his temperament but also his roots in urban politics.