{"id":177,"date":"2006-02-17T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=177"},"modified":"2019-12-28T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:19:37","slug":"getting-buttered-in-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/getting-buttered-in-rochester\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting buttered in Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Searching for the perfect Friday post, and lo, I discover that Rochester’s own Century Discount Liquors made The Wall Street Journal<\/em>‘s Friday Tastings column: “Taking Sides in the Butter Battle” (subscription required).<\/p>\n

Turns out, a rebellion is brewing amongst wine drinkers, who are demanding the return of the buttery Chardonnay. Good for them, I say! Butter Lovers, Unite! So columnists Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher, being gracious & tolerant sorts, phoned wine shops in various cities around the country<\/p>\n

and posed this question: “If we walked into your shop this minute and asked you for a buttery American Chardonnay, what would you sell us?” We said they could choose one over $20 and one under $20, but they had to answer right away from wines that were on the shelf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the stores they called was Century, where Michael Misch, general manager, recommended a Chalk Hill ($28) and Franciscan ($14).<\/p>\n

So isn’t this grand? Now if you’re looking for bottled butter, you don’t have to say so out loud — and attract sneers from the anything-but-Chardonnay shoppers — or resort to passing a note to a clerk, which could get you mistaken for a criminal.<\/p>\n

Otoh, pairing a Chardonnay, buttery or not, with the cold front that’s moved in today may well be the height of gauche. I’d better Google that, I think . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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