[Tacis]

How will we wash our socks if there is no French wine?

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.

[NautiNurse]

The Chileans, Australians and Californians must be delighted.

Bought some fabulous Chilean wines last month. Australia is rocking with Shiraz. South Africa, New Zealand and Spain have very enjoyable winners too.

[HenryLeeII]

The American Spectator had an article a few months back about the ascendancy of American wines over the French bilge. The author mentioned a wine tasting held in France, with French officials, back in the late-1970s, in which they consistently picked the American wine as the better tasting one in most categories. The results were covered up after the initial reports, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle, so to speak. And let's not forget that along with the fine California wines there is also a growing viticulture here in the Old Dominion.