by Thomas Pierce

Much has been made of Kenyans unofficially renaming their Senator beer, Obama beer.

But what about the Palin Syrah — an organic wine from Chile? According to SeriousEats (via Wonkette), it was once a best-seller for at least one wine bar:

But after Sen. John McCain tagged Sarah Palin as his running mate, sales of the wine with the conservative's inverted name plummeted—not surprising in famously liberal San Francisco.

Obama's popular in Kenya. Palin's not popular in San Francisco. No big news there. However that wine bar's description of the syrah (supposedly penned before Palin was tapped as the VP pick) is amusing:

...white pepper, madrone, dry. Incidentally, a madrone is an evergreen found primarily in the Pacific Northwest that bears red berries in the fall. When the berries dry up, they are replaced by hooked barbs that latch onto large animals for migration.