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Facing wine glut, Europe's vintners distil wine into industrial alcohol
canada.com ^
| November 30, 2006
| Jenny Barchfield
Posted on 11/30/2006 8:08:16 PM PST by quantim
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the European Union has resorted to paying vintners to destroy some of their stock each year,Bet they got that idea from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture handout programs.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:08:22 PM PST
by
quantim
To: quantim
Wine? The French are making wine now? Who knew?
To: NautiNurse; Amerigomag; andrew2527; AnAmericanMother; A Jovial Cad; Awgie; babaloo; Betis70; ...
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:11:30 PM PST
by
quantim
(Ebola virus equivalent => Senators that think they're Presidential material)
To: Billthedrill
Wine? The French are making wine now? Who knew?yes, but it's not very good , and over priced....they'll learn, then again, perhaps not..
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:16:32 PM PST
by
Wil H
To: Billthedrill
I love how they ignore the effect of the American boycott.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:16:35 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: quantim
Australia recently overtook France as Britain's main supplier. HA HA HA HA!!
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:17:07 PM PST
by
nwrep
To: quantim
""It's clear we can't go on like this,...But we can't just snuff out winemaking either"How about lowering your prices? It's called supply and demand, learn about it.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:17:51 PM PST
by
Texas dog
To: quantim
[. . .A contested new EU plan aims to downsize Europe's wine industry, shifting from distillation to ripping out huge swaths of vineyards - some 40,470 hectares of vines, or more than 10 per cent of Europe's total, over the next five years.]
Also know as "Central Planning" in the old Soviet Union.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:18:02 PM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
(Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
To: quantim
vintage wine is being transformed into disinfectants or gasoline additives - I thought they called that french cognac
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:23:04 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
[. . .A contested new EU plan aims to downsize Europe's wine industry, shifting from distillation to ripping out huge swaths of vineyards - some 40,470 hectares of vines, or more than 10 per cent of Europe's total, over the next five years.] Muslims don't need no stinking wine. So goes the french culture. If there is such a thing.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:26:37 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: Texas dog
Actually, the junk bulk wine this article is indirectly referring to doesn't mention 'quality.' Problem is your suggestion of supply and demand is correct to the point that there is no demand for this mass-produced poor quality grape juice, so price is not the issue.
They've bottomed out.
As far as American boycotts on French wine go it may have helped keep some prices from rising, but the quality French wines have just shifted to other international (particularly Asian) markets.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:33:15 PM PST
by
quantim
(Ebola virus equivalent => Senators that think they're Presidential material)
To: Billthedrill
Say what you will about the French...but they sure make good wine.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:39:59 PM PST
by
Mariner
To: quantim
Well darn, there goes my Romanee Conti.
I suppose it didn't occur to the French to perhaps LOWER THE PRICES of their wine to sell more?.....
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:41:37 PM PST
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
To: quantim
Problem is your suggestion of supply and demand is correct... Yes. To be serious for a moment, this isn't an uncommon phenomenon during big harvest years - lots of nice, fat, water-laden grapes...that make lousy wine. The Aussies went through a bit of this last year. It happens.
Now, on to bash-the-French night! You know why the Muzzies are burning the cars in Paris? In case the German army wants to march in at night...
To: quantim
distilling billions of bottles of perfectly drinkable wine into pure alcohol...cost EU taxpayers $190 million last year.Ouch.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:44:06 PM PST
by
NautiNurse
(Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.)
To: FreedomPoster
" they ignore the effect of the American boycott."
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:48:47 PM PST
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george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: nwrep; Aussie Dasher; naturalman1975; Fred Nerks
" Australia recently overtook France as Britain's main supplier."
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11/30/2006 8:50:46 PM PST
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george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: org.whodat; Mrs Ivan; MadIvan
" Muslims don't need no stinking wine. So goes the french culture..."
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:52:32 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: quantim
In Spain, I recall when wine was automatically served with your meal, like ice water here. It was included in the price of a complete meal and it was good, not great but very drinkable.
To: quantim
I don't understand this. You can distill wine into brandy, or something that's becoming more popular, into vodka.
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11/30/2006 8:55:53 PM PST
by
toddlintown
(Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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