[Sonar5]

Hehhehe....

I live in Temecula, Ca. and all I buy is the Local wine we produce right here in my little wine valley.

Wilson Creek Winery... mmmmmmmmmmmm

Screw France, they can piss all the wine they want, I hope their Grapes rot on the vines...

[Jazzman1]

are we sure that these frogs couldnt SELL their slop due to the EMBARGO?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Boycotts never work: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78921,00.html

[b4its2late]

I wouldn't buy a bottle of French wine if it was the last wine on earth. They can stuff it where the sun don't shine!

[TatieBug]

Serves 'em right! Wonder if they'll ever get it figured out...it's not the taste it's the producers.

[digger48]

I can hear the 2 Senators from Massachusetts sobbing from here.

[Tacis]

So much FRench wine, so few dirty socks!!

[taxesareforever]

I wonder also if the law says this wine ethanol cannot be used in war machines. Oh, that's right, they don't have any war machines.

[BulletBobCo]

[txhurl]

Socialist is as socialist does.

(literally, the departments are divided into crus (growths) and then into communes.

[Socratic]

From vin ordinaire to nationale ordiaire in one easy step: the Chirac legacy.

[yooper]

“I feel sick to the heart,” said Farges, from Mauriac. The source of his melancholy is a European Union-funded process in which some of the quality red wine he produces will be distilled into undrinkable ethanol for use as factory fuel. The deadline for participating in the scheme is Bastille Day, a cruel irony. Farges has already sent in his forms."

Yet another Frenchman surrenders without a fight.

[Temple Owl]

I'll keep drinking California and Australian wines.

[Libloather]

Anything bottled after April 1986 should be drained. Chornobyl fixed all that...

http://www.infoukes.com/history/chornobyl/index.html

[Tunehead54]

Only champagne and the highest quality bordeaux, burgundy and loire wines have been unaffected by the worst crisis for the industry since the phylloxera disease killed off a large portion of the country’s vines a century ago.

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Why can't they just drop their prices to become more competitive? I'm still boycotting all things fraunch except Michelin tires (sorry) - I still think they're deluding themselves if they think their drop in market share is due to anything other than their anti-American stance in the UN and Iraq war. ;-)

[bill1952]

Fellow Freepers, there is a Club Med 6 miles from my house in Port Saint Lucie.
It was always amusing to drive the Ferrari there and wach their puzzlement when you asked for Valet service. - They have none, and from what I saw, they don't know what it means. Lots of laughs.

They have a very good buffet, which includes unlimited tap beer and unlimited bottles of wine (that you just grab from a reach in cooler) for $20.

Also included there is a somewhat hokey French entertainment series in the auditorium, if you wish to attend after you eat.

If you can still stand after all the alcohol you can drink.

I have not been there since the whole Iraq/France thing (I will never return) and I would crawl over broken glass to buy American or Australian wine.

French wine? What is that? - Hey France. Can you hear me?

[small voice in the wilderness]

July 14 sounds like a great day to open a bottle of David Bruce Pinor Noir, grill a nice New York Strip, and celebrate the second fall of France.

[ml/nj]

The source of his melancholy is a European Union-funded process in which some of the quality red wine he produces will be distilled into undrinkable ethanol for use as factory fuel.

If this isn't an example of bureaucracy gone mad nothing is. Those of you who experience shadenfreude because this is happening to some Frenchman won't be so gleeful when our Washington elite decide to follow the enlightened EU example here.

ML/NJ

[The Great RJ]

Another failure of French and EU socialism. Price fixing and tariff wars lead by the EU have killed the market for French wine. Free markets work and governments don't.

[ncountylee]

Here's to you Jacques, many happy returns.