US: The Governor and The Donald Team Up for Wine

(WineSpectator) - Though even mighty California struggles to gain a foothold in the Chinese wine market (not if Yao Ming has anything to say about it), Virginia is already on the ground in Shanghai: "We did this little deal, 7,000 bottles of Barboursville wine going to this one province in China," Gov. Bob McDonnell told Unfiltered. "We see immense potential." It's one of the many wine initiatives the governor and his wife Maureen have pursued since taking office in 2010. The pair were in New York at Trump Tower this week with the "Virginia Is for Lovers" campaign to get the word out. After talking up Virginia's growing wine industry, the governor ceded the podium to a not-so-surprise guest: preeminent Virginia vintner Donald Trump himself. (Trump recently purchased the 350-acre former Kluge Estate Winery.) "From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump and Eric Trump, that's a pretty good lineage of Virginia winemakers," McDonnell declared. (Son Eric will be running the winery's operations.) Trump then enthused about the "spectacular" vineyard, and promised that his folks would do a good job with the winery, or he would have to tell them that they are fired.

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