[Rudder]

World awash in a Glut of Wine

(burp) Salute!!

[Dog Gone]

Chinese wine?

Dang, is there anything they can't do?

[Riley]

Locustlike, I suggest we all assemble in the most northerly part of the continent, and work our way down. Together, we can...

'Drink Canada Dry'.

[wingman1]

What's really funny is that some good wine is being bottled with screw caps.

I tasted some Red Pillar from Australia that came sans cork.

Not bad, and not expensive.

[Netheron]

And this is a problem because????

[Sisku Hanne]

A round of "Two-buck Chuck" for everyone!

[MplsSteve]

Here in the Mpls-St Paul area, I'm not seeing that glut reflected in the current price of wine.

[river rat]

Poor France....
The news just goes from bad to worse.....

Love it.
Semper Fi

[originalbuckeye]

I have noticed that some decent wines, like Ravenswood Chardonnay, are hovering around the $6 mark. I wondered why but 'YAY' anyway.

[Psycho_Bunny]

US wine sales are rising amid baby boomer drinking preferences, a middle generation beginning to switch from beer to wine and a baby boom echo generation that already prefers wine.

This is the kind of sentence that makes me want to drink a bottle of wine and punch a reporter.  WTF is this guy saying?

[dighton]

Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
I, that was wash’d to death with fulsome wine,
Poor Clarence, by thy guile betray’d to death!

[Philistone]

Hey... I'm DOIN' the best I can!

Can't do it ALL by myself, tho...

[Tall_Texan]

I guess global warming isn't ALL bad....

[dynachrome]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562905/posts

From a previous thread. "Jarhead Red" wine. Some of the cost goes to a Marine charity.

[Tadhg]

Is the price of Petrus coming down ?!?!

[righttackle44]

With Ted Kennedy around, how can there be an excess of
ANY form of alcohol?

[Toespi]

Ironically, this evening I went to a neighborhood wine shop that recently opened. Each night they do a specialty wine tasting. Tonight was Chardonnay, French, Italian, Austrailian, and California. The place was packed, elbow to elbow. The French was light almost in a cowardly way, the Aussie Chardonnay was fun but tasted a little dusty, the California was way too complicated and tasted just a tad too liberal for me. I opted for two bottles of the Italian, which had a lot of guts. As I was leaving, I realized I couldn't even leave politics out of my wine choice.

[GSlob]

Pour a BIG libation to Bacchus.

[Publius6961]

California wineries have seen their dominance of U.S. sales slip to 66 percent from 75 percent in a decade as Australia, Chile and Argentina have geared up production.

More accurately, the sales slip tracks exactly the rise in price as California Vintners promoted their premium wines, independent of the amount produced.

For the wine consumers, the cost benefir ration failed long ago when imported wines, just as good are available at much lower prices. Yes, even French wines.

[concentric circles]

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