What Hedges fails to recognize, however, is that critical wine rating has grown in ubiquity on a parallel path with the growth of wines available to the consumer who are mostly inundated with a wall of wine and abundance of choice when all they truly want is a lovely bottle of vino for dinner.
People might wonder when they see a black-tie dinner and what -- from everything I hear, what will be a lovely evening in the tent on the South Lawn -- what the role of having a party like that is, given that some people might say there is two wars and a lot of joblessness going on in the country.