Well with this Military Whistleblower coming forward, I guess it's time I open a bottle of this wine that I have been saving for about 30 years now.
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Bonny Doon's Le Cigare Volant (the Flying Cigar) named after the 1954 law in the Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC prohibiting flying saucers from traveling over the region's vineyards.
"We had already fermented the grapes in 1984 when I picked up a copy of John Livingstone-Learmouth’s The Wines of the Rhône and leafed through the chapter on Châteauneuf. (If I was going to make wine in this style, a little education was in order.) There I learned about the bizarre local French ordinance prohibiting the landing of flying saucers and “flying cigars” in these Rhône vineyards, and I was utterly charmed. Perhaps a label that treated this goofy ordinance would be a broader, more inclusive joke than a spoof of Vieux Télégraphe, a wine that was then known essentially only to wine geeks, and the aim, of course, was to educate the American public about the virtues of this largely unknown category, the wines of the Rhône."
https://cellarangels.com/bonny-doon-vine...573134191/
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I sure hope this Whistleblower knows he is taking on the High Table!
Bonny Doon's Le Cigare Volant (the Flying Cigar) named after the 1954 law in the Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC prohibiting flying saucers from traveling over the region's vineyards.
"We had already fermented the grapes in 1984 when I picked up a copy of John Livingstone-Learmouth’s The Wines of the Rhône and leafed through the chapter on Châteauneuf. (If I was going to make wine in this style, a little education was in order.) There I learned about the bizarre local French ordinance prohibiting the landing of flying saucers and “flying cigars” in these Rhône vineyards, and I was utterly charmed. Perhaps a label that treated this goofy ordinance would be a broader, more inclusive joke than a spoof of Vieux Télégraphe, a wine that was then known essentially only to wine geeks, and the aim, of course, was to educate the American public about the virtues of this largely unknown category, the wines of the Rhône."
https://cellarangels.com/bonny-doon-vine...573134191/
I sure hope this Whistleblower knows he is taking on the High Table!