U.S. loses its taste for French wine

International Herald Tribune ^ | 06/30/03 | Craig S. Smith

[pcx99]

Slowly but surely we shall teach them that "The customer is always right" -- EVEN WHEN IT IS AMERICA!

[zarf]

I'm using my last French bottle for wood stain.

[Pompah]

I have been able to do without french wines for some time now, It should be pretty easy from here on out.
Viva Italia.

[nopardons]

A few weeks ago, I had to restock my wine reserves. I did NOT buy any French ones, which I normally do; but rather, doubled up on the Italian and American ones I buy.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

What an insult that these morons think they can deck a monument in the Stars and Stripes and hire some has been pedophile and we'll just forget everything? Just who do these people think they're dealing with? It's an outrage.

[Thud]

ping

[MEG33]

Choice is a wonderful thing.Choosing Woody Allen as a spokesman is so absurd one suspects an intel agency of the US planted a mole for decision making!

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Having friends for the 4th...have purchased 9 bottles of wine...nary a one from France.

[MEG33]

LOL!

[nopardons]

Welcome to the ever expanding club ! :-)

Maybe we wine drinking/buying FREEPERs should make a thread and list our nonFrench favs; waddya think ?

[Logic101]

Woody Allen's actions have shown him to have just about the same amount of class as the French - indeed he is a perfect spokesperson for them.

[autoresponder]

So much for the frogs!

LIVE FREE OR DIE!

[Logic101]

For years I drank Perrier on a regular basis. Now I'm doing just fine without it, thank you, and will continue not to drink a drop of it. Buy American brands. Lots of choices and some of the U.S. brand flavored waters, when properly chilled, are terrific! Let's support our own for a change.

[Jay D. Dyson]

How can this be? The foul-mouthed pus gut U.S. ambassador to France just insisted the other day that all economic repercussions from France's treachery during the Iraq war were completely history.

For my own part, if I want any lip from that moron, I'll rattle my zipper just remind him that the boycott is still going strong!

-Jay

[Buckwheats]

I know watching an old left-wing lecher joke about French-kissing his step-daughter/wife makes me want to run out and buy some French wine.

[wolficatZ]

http://www.australianwines.com.au/contents.html try some you'll like it..

[MEG33]

I tell you it had to be a plot!

[Hugin]

American and Australian winemakers can irrigate their vineyards to control the quality of their grapes, for example, or even mellow their wine by adding oak chips to the stainless steel tanks in which the wine is aged. But that is all illegal in France.

French vintners are at the mercy of the weather and if they want to make a mellower wine, they have to invest in expensive, new oak casks. The result is wine that varies in quality from year to year, an unpredictability that is prized by connoisseurs but is lost on the average consumer.

No wonder California wine tastes better year in and year out, and is cheaper to boot. Socialism at work.

[Buckwheats]

Ya know, you might be on to something there. And, arrogance lends itself to such a thing.

[MEG33]

hehe