Posted on 10/13/2025 6:23:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
I'm Gen X and I make my own.
I’ve heard people are substituting weed for alcohol these days. Don’t know how much this would impact the wine industry.
Maybe the wine industry has to improve and become more competitive. IME you have to pay $20 a bottle to get a good wine.
I love red wine but it is too pricey and I can’t drink the crappy stuff anymore.
Plus you can find award-winning vineyards in various places across the country. CA isn’t the giant in charge anymore.
and an increase in cheaper imports.
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Obviously we need more tariffs!
The younger generations are not that social. And it appears that among Gen Z, women are getting more liberal while men are getting more conservative.
Someone should tell that biz whiz Meghan Markle.
I’m not a huge wine drinker, but never really cared for California wines overall. Preferred German Whites and Italian or Spanish reds.
Yeah, a lot of vineyard land is not suitable for a cranberry bog, what with vineyards frequently being on hillsides. I was just thinking the same thing, tho, maybe they can grow something else?
My palette isn’t sophisticated enough to tell the difference between a $30 Texas Cabernet Sauvignon and a $200 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. On my last visit to Fall Creek Winery in Driftwood, I went overboard, spending $300 on six bottles. I was celebrating another bonus from work, and a few wines caught my eye.
I don’t drink as much as I used to, so I don’t mind paying more. We don’t go out for dinner, either. I can grill steaks at home and save money there, so the cost evens out.
Replaced by recreational drug use.
I wonder just how much CA’s onerous business and ag regulations have hurt them.
No mention of that......
Depends on whose campaigns they contributed to................
Turn them into raisins. Or those blocks of compressed grapes they used to sell during prohibition. Or grape juice.
Only in America, capitalism, is too much goods a bad thing!!
Funny. Too much good weatger, too much good “gardening”. Too much good marketing.
Welcome to farming, except....AGE THE WINE AND STOP WHINING!
The market has to correct itself like all other industries must.
How about more foods made with wine on youtube? Push wine flavored burger sauces for restaurants....
Try this advertisement:
Wine, the nonchlorinated preppers drink during the dark ages!!
Spill the wine, take that pearl.
Instead of whining these farmers should look for new opportunities. I know of several wineries in Minnesota that are buying grapes in California and producing their own wines here in the Midwest. Why not expand the market for their grapes to wine makers outside of California? The California leftists complain about Trumps tariffs, but those tariffs are making imported wine more expensive and are protecting American wine makers. California wine makers are also losing the young generation who are drinking spiked soda pop like seltzers. Why not better advertising for California wines as a natural alternative to these artificially flavored concoctions?
Give me red wine, the kind make me feel fine
You make me feel fine all of the time
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