What Wine Goes With Douchiness?

Published on Friday, March 19, 2010, by Lessley Anderson / Edit Post

This morning's business section of the New York Times had a cheery article about a new Web series called Pairings that matches up famous musicians with famous chefs to make a very special dinner.

The webisode of Pairings I watched features Chef John Besh, soft rocker Dave Matthews, and Director of Winemaking of Robert Mondavi Wines, Genevieve Janssens. If you are in a bad mood or hung over, do NOT watch this, as it may tip you over the edge. The premise is that these great artists are coming together to make a FABulous dinner together with wine, food, and music, because Mondavi and American Express want them to. Oh, sorry, I mean, because they're celebrating the creativity of life. It's not forced at all. Matthews: "Good food and good drink and good music tend to go together, almost wherever you are, it's almost a human quality to try and prepare your food and prepare your drink and prepare your music to go together. Almost.

The camera work is straight out of a Cialis commercial, and although they talk about New Orleans a lot, they're actually shooting the entire thing in Napa at the Mondavi Winery. If you make it to the end, the payoff is a touching scene where Matthews performs his special song (that's already been playing through the entire webisode) to a roomful of douchey, drunk, white couples looking very moved. Really looking forward to the other one, featuring John Legend and Tom Colicchio together for one "legendary" evening.

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  • I made it 48 seconds into this little presentation and the food was not mentioned, the wine was not mentioned and I'm not a fan of Matthews. CUT!
    The writer is rather a bitch, but she's right, nonetheless.

  • The SOUL of Dave Matthews = briny raw salmon

    Beautiful. Transformative. I am moved to tears.

  • We need to read more of this kind of critique. This video is blatantly commercial and cross-promotional.

  • Hahahaha! I was going to watch it, and decided against it. As I don't like Dave Matthews and don't really care about chef Besh. Don't really care for Mondavi wines either.

    Then it gets worse because I don't really like Tom Colicchio!

    What has been seen cannot be unseen.

  • That video hurt my brain.

  • I'm neither hungover nor in a bad mood, and I still couldn't sit through four minutes of that schlock.
    Self-gratifying BS.

  • "If you are in a bad mood or hung over, do NOT watch this, as it may tip you over the edge."

    That might provide some clue as to this article's spawning.

  • "Douchey white couples looking moved" is hyper-critical and racist. Her use of "douchey" may strike a chord with pessimistic Hipsters, but not with me. I find it childish.

    Now, I can understand where Ms. Anderson is coming from. I find myself sometimes surrounded by the people she describes. They take life far too seriously and are indeed caricatures of themselves. Ms. Anderson needs to take...+READ

    "Douchey white couples looking moved" is hyper-critical and racist. Her use of "douchey" may strike a chord with pessimistic Hipsters, but not with me. I find it childish.

    Now, I can understand where Ms. Anderson is coming from. I find myself sometimes surrounded by the people she describes. They take life far too seriously and are indeed caricatures of themselves. Ms. Anderson needs to take herself just a bit more seriously and "mature" her language a bit.-COLLAPSE

  • Well, it appears that we all agree: Lessley Anderson is a douche.

  • The video was indeed quite stupid, but what was even stupider was this idiotic rhetoric from Lessley Anderson. Douchey white couples looking moved? I see John Besh and an Asian lady after an extremely brief blurry shot of a dining room where one cannot make out neither the race nor the facial expressions of the diners.

    Yes, the commercial is pretentious douchiness, but this post is snarky...+READ

    The video was indeed quite stupid, but what was even stupider was this idiotic rhetoric from Lessley Anderson. Douchey white couples looking moved? I see John Besh and an Asian lady after an extremely brief blurry shot of a dining room where one cannot make out neither the race nor the facial expressions of the diners.

    Yes, the commercial is pretentious douchiness, but this post is snarky douchiness, and I'm not sure which is worse, if either.-COLLAPSE

  • Concise. I'd end the quote at the end of the second paragraph before the word 'Almost'

  • Whenever someone calls someone else "bro" & they aren't related, or haven't gone through something together (some hardship or something), then user of the word "bro" is a doofus. Changing the menu based on the song? Please. I'd rather watch Cialis commercials then this POS again.

  • Um, this isn't a Cialis commercial? It sure starts like one. Or maybe an ad for a retirement community. I had to stop; it was indeed making me nauseous.

  • I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy the show either, but this post is a lot snarkier and just, well, Internetty than I expect from Chow. The thing I like best about this site is its low Nick Denton quotient.

  • Good one, Lessley. Love it. Don't plan to watch—don't need to; you said it all.