This is what I will do to your wine bottles frenchie....
Get rid of Chirac. Sales might improve.
So9
A l'infer, France!
C'est dommage. Feeling their pain and happy to do so bump.
deux francs chuck
Anyone who knows wines recognized the 2003 Bordeaux futures descriptions of smoke, charcoal, graphite, barbecue spice and licorice means a bad batch, a bad year.
The French are just crying about poor sales because they prefer to whine.
Twaddle!
ML/NJ
The boycott is working.
LOL! Sort of like the more wearable fashions of NY.
The French make wine?
This is what I will do to your wine bottles frenchie....
This actually is a very strange approach. OPEC does it and gets away with it only because it is a cartel and members claim to be unwilling to compete with one another.
The Chileans, Australians and Californians must be delighted. The arrogant French delude themselves by thinking that French wine is worth a premium and that their plonk is so much better. Americans don't need yet another reason not to drink French wine. Oh, sure, the Kerry's will continue to buy $100 a bottle French wine but they are wealthy elitists.
I accept my responsibilities. I have not bought a French wine in more than a year.
Think I'll run over to the Paso Robles Outback and get a bottle or two...Adelaida for Zinfandel and Carmody-McKnight for Champagne (Yes, Froggies, Champagne...made in America.) Don't give a rip if you do think it's your word and product.
(A word in a language French would know much better if not for the USA)
I used to follow the Bordeaux wines pretty closely, and would lay in a case or two when the getting was good. I opened one bottle of 1982 wine for my birthday a couple of years ago whose list price had gone up from $15 to $200. If you buy it early and keep it for 10 years or more, the prices are reasonable.
BUT, since Chirac stabbed us in the back, with the full approval of the French people, I haven't bought a single bottle of French wine, and I'm not going to for the foreseeable future. Too bad, because I like the stuff, but I just can't justify buying anything French after their treacherous behavior.
While I doubt that our boycott could ruin the French wine industry. Every American dollar not spent on French goods, can only isolate them economically. Also it will make them realize that there are bigger fish out there then themselves.
Hey Frenchies, if you want some advise on how to handle this crisis, just ask our vice president! He'll tell you all what to do!
Anything more would be stored until the CIVB decided that conditions had improved.
And what do they do with it next year when thay have even MORE that isn't sold???
Winecountry Finger Lakes Wine Country
Seneca Lake wines are the best of the bunch.
To wit: YELOW TAIL. Their Chardonnay is light and delicate, slightly effervescent. Their merlot is a robust, red-meat, fruity, deep red treat. No more FRANCH wine for me, thank you...