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1 posted on 02/16/2020 4:58:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Make more raisins and sell them as a health food supplement.


2 posted on 02/16/2020 5:00:47 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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I use wine just for cooking. People ask me why I’m always cooking.


3 posted on 02/16/2020 5:01:29 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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I thought Chicken Noodle News reported that all the vineyards burned up because.....Trump.


5 posted on 02/16/2020 5:04:18 PM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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I thought it would be just the OPPOSITE, what with the acreage destroyed by fires in the Napa Valley, etc. a few years back.

What do you know? Nature Can Survive!

Why are wine sales down? Because it’s not Keto? Liquor is Quicker? ;)


6 posted on 02/16/2020 5:04:27 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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Odd...the new high tariffs on French wine have really killed them, so I’d expect Americans to take advantage of this to fill the market and ramp up their prices.

But I guess it depends on the wine. Perhaps high end wines are the only ones affected, so it wouldn’t have any effect on the bulk wine market.

I don’t think the French sent us much mid-shelf wine anyway. We get more (and much better) affordable wine from Spain.


8 posted on 02/16/2020 5:05:14 PM PST by livius
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Any good names on the list?


9 posted on 02/16/2020 5:08:00 PM PST by sanjuanbob (Dems=Demons)
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"Wine consumption has dropped for the first time in 25 years, with more Americans turning to liquor and ready-to-drink cocktails, according to industry group IWSR. “The industry should rightly be concerned,” McMillan said. “We aren’t engaging with the millennial consumer, and boomers who have driven wine sales for the last 30 years won’t live forever.”"

More for us old timers!

10 posted on 02/16/2020 5:10:38 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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State will raise taxes to keep things even.


13 posted on 02/16/2020 5:14:44 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Turn ‘em into kits for home winemakers. I’d love to be able to go to a local vineyard & harvest real wine grapes. We make wine out of all kinds of fruit, but I’ve only had a chance to get real wine grapes once.


15 posted on 02/16/2020 5:19:29 PM PST by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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One Buck Chuck?


16 posted on 02/16/2020 5:20:57 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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So two buck chuck will be one buck chuck?


17 posted on 02/16/2020 5:23:29 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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A cup for the pot, a cup for the cook...


19 posted on 02/16/2020 5:25:09 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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"In this case, we overshot demand.”

Bottle it and let it sit for a few years. It's not like they're baking bread or somethin'.

20 posted on 02/16/2020 5:25:37 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I heard it through the Grapevine.

They should resurrect these guys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_California_Raisins

22 posted on 02/16/2020 5:34:39 PM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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Don't tell the collective! They'll start running our buses on California wine!

Swedish Buses running on Spanish Wine!

25 posted on 02/16/2020 5:38:07 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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Aldis has Winking Owl for $3.29 btl. A bargain.


26 posted on 02/16/2020 5:38:41 PM PST by BipolarBob (Joe Biden: "We can't let Trump keep on making America great".)
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Hopefully this will turn Nasty’s vineyard belly-up.


27 posted on 02/16/2020 5:38:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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Strange. I read not long ago that GLO-BULL warming was destroying the grapes.


28 posted on 02/16/2020 5:39:10 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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I can live with lower wine prices.


29 posted on 02/16/2020 5:40:04 PM PST by Rio
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Wasn’t it just last year when there was not going to be any more wine from there because the fired destroyed all the vineyards?

We lurch from one set of news to another.

Sensationalism is all that is able to feed the 24/7 news cycle.

Too much news.


31 posted on 02/16/2020 5:41:04 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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