You would think that the White House would have a cellar with verticals and top vintages of some of the finest produced thought out your country for state dinners. In the U.K. the HOP has a splendid cellar of Champagne, Bordeaux, and Burgundy and a splatting of English wine. In Canada we have a cellar on Parliament Hill of various wines produced across Canada for state functions. Brings up a point of interest do more Democrats or Republicans drink wine? I remember years ago when I worked in a wine shop in Vancouver one of my best customers was a left wing labour/union leader who always bought me out of Silver Oaks, Leonetti, and Opus. Politics and wine ~ strange bedfellows. Stephen Bonner Vancouver