[Atlantic Bridge]

That is a real punch into the face of "la Grande Nation". Although I usually prefer French wines (as a German I do not have that much reason to boycott the frogs as the average American) to most other stuff, I already found out that California has some really outstanding wines.

If you Californians have the same nice girls to share a good glass of Cabernet like the French I could become a real fan of your wines.

Nunc est bibendum!

[Anti-Bubba182]

Lord! Every wine in France is grown on American root stock which replaced French Phylloxera infested stock. The plant are very similar.

[BigBlueJon]

They do. And, I have one for proof. Well, I have both, the wine and the California girl.

(She's 1/2 French also, but we don't talk about that.)

[GVnana]

California schadenfreude!

[Diogenesis]

"(At least) We will always have (Islamic terrorists) in Paris"

[MacDorcha]

Vino!

[pissant]

California has some of the most beautiful scenery in the world (geological and wine-sipping babes). But Oregon and Washington also have some of the best wines the US has to offer.

I still give the Germans the nod for best lager beers though.

[FreePaul]

I worked with a number of Frenchmen both here and in France. One, when visiting here wouldn't even taste an American wine. He didn't appreciate my comments about him not wanting to become addicted. His boss, who was said to be a real connoisseur, thought some American wines very good and always drank them when here.

[rattrap]

If you Californians have the same nice girls

Well, if there's anywhere in America you'd find girls as furry as the French, Cali would be the place to look. ;-)

[randog]

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but it seems to me that everyone is making wine these days. It would be interesting to see who comes out on top if this test were done with a variety of wines from different regions of the world.

[Hebrews 11:6]

My taste for California wines and my distaste as an American for the French in general, and as an SC Trojan for Notre Dame in particular, is exemplified by these results. To paraphrase that great American, Carson Palmer, I hate Notre Dame even more than I hate UCLA.

Fight On!

[ECM]

We have lots of them as long as IQ isn't a sticking point for you...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

California wine grapes were planted by Italians and have been looked after by Mexicans. Even a $7 bottle of California wine can be great.

[Bigg Red]

....blind taste test between French and Californian wines have handed the laurels to California for a second time. The French wine industry gnashes its teeth.

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I love it!

[Liberty Valance]

I don't know. What do you think Miles?

[river rat]

I guess the Germans have a genetic predisposition to regard the round heeled French girls as "desirable"...Many of today's "French" ladies must still carry WWI and WWII German genes.

"Easy" and "Desirable" must be interchangeable...
I can understand that the German's were impressed by how easily the French girls threw their feet into the air -- it was simply their reaction to the chance of sleeping with a WINNER for a change..... Nothing more....

The Americans were greeted the same way, and had sloppy seconds...

Semper Fi

[aruanan]

Oops, they did it again. Judges in a rematch of a 1976 blind taste test between French and Californian wines have handed the laurels to California for a second time. The French wine industry gnashes its teeth.

And if they didn't have American Vitis labrusca rootstock, their wine industry wouldn't exist. Of course, if they hadn't gotten phylloxera from imported American rootstocks to begin with, they wouldn't have been in trouble.

[Fairview]

California women are among the most beautiful in the world, not least because the climate makes it possible to exercise outdoors year-round.

[SamAdams76]

I go through about 2 or 3 bottles of wine a month. Not quite a connoisseur but I know good wine from bad. There is no doubt that the United States produces many of the finest wines in the world. California by itself would be the world superpower of wine but there are many fine wines in other parts of the country too. I have some Virginia wines that are very good and everytime I'm down that way, I stop at wineries to stock up such as the one near the Natural Bridge on I-81. North Carolina has some good wines too.

In fact, I wouldn't even put France second to the U.S. I would rather have wines from Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Portugal and even Argentina and Chile before I touch a French wine. About the only French wine I ever buy these days is the annual crop of Beaujolis Noveau (intended to be consumed fresh and not to be aged) that comes out each year around Thanksgiving and only because it is a holiday tradition and my family looks for it at the table at Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Pride goeth before a fall. The Frogs have ruined their wine market in the U. S. because of their politics. Their wines were never all that superior to other countries. France enjoyed a great reputation, much exaggerated, but that has come to an end. Like everything else in a socialist nation, innovation and technology lags behind.

Like Cuban cigars, much of the taste has been lost and better cigars now are produced in other countries since Castro and the New York Times took over Cuba. Absence makes the taste grow weaker.

[combat_boots]

I don't (hic) know if (hic) I agree withthat (hic). I'll havetohav (hic) a few more (hic) gl-glgl-glasses (hic) to tell.