Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Fashion, Turn to the Left
Blair Sabol from Scottsdale, Arizona wants to know: "What are the hot wines?"
Blair has written about fashion since Rudi Gernreich was straight, and thinks that styles change seasonally (or should) like hemline lengths.
But could she be right? Is there a fashion that changes from year to year like "it" bags? Didn't Aussies come and go like a bad fad, like Maxi-Skirts? Are the current crop of high scoring Spanish wines the future regrettable equivalent of shopping at Fiorucci?
Gauging from the auction market, the hot wines are DRC and Lafite Rothschild, not exactly new news. Part of that is that the only "hot" AND "new" wines are coming from the "new" world. Expensive California cult wines seem to crop up one a year. Kapcsandy, Dana, Scarecrow, Maybach, Futo Family, Levy & McClelland. But is California Cabernet Sauvignon really "hot"? They all have big shoulder pads.
Amir, the overpriced men's clothier at the Beverly Hills Hotel has a tag line in his display window, that features a picture of him with the Shah of Iran, "Fashion is seasonal. Style is forever."
