Posted on 12/08/2004 1:42:21 PM PST by Hi Heels
The market is strong, it's the French wine that's weak!!!
Now if we could just make progress on Evian water and Michelin tires...
It's been a long time since we bought French wine and do not miss it one bit. There are other sources of very good wine. I enjoy domestic wines the best.
Screw Napa and Sonoma, drink red county wines from San Luis Obispo ! Or try Temecula wines if you can find them.
The main reason for the decline is French wines is the emergence of extremely drinkable "lifestyle wines" like Yellow Tail from friendly places like Australia.
Red wine + steak = yum.
Twice as good with grass fed Argentine beef and Argentine red wine. With their parsley-garlic-olive oil sauce.
Try Canadian wine from the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. A very conservative, "red" area of Canada politically.
Overproduction is the problem for the producers here, and we've had the same thing in WA state. I can go to the local state liquor store and pick up some Arbor Crest Cliff House Red for less than seven bucks a bottle, it goes magnificently with a steak, or any red meat-based food. Our supermarkets are offering fairly deep discounts on the retail prices of many fine wines. Oversupply is a great thing for the consumer!
The French government should require citizens drink, and to excess. Not only will it help dry up the wine that's no longer headed to the US, it may drive some Muslims out. It may ease the passing of those who die of heat every summer, and generally give the French an excuse for acting so French.
It needs to be re-named anyway, the french don't do it all that well.
Gee, I must have been hard on the french by not buying their vino. I guess I will go out and buy a bottle of french vino, na, I don't think so......
SLO wines are excellent too! Had...get this... LAKE COUNTY wines this year. And they were excellent as well.
Bad experience with a young woman of French origin, eh?
Your not kidding! That is called chimichurri. Have you ever been to Argentina, or is there just a good parilla near your house? There really is nothing better. I can't believe I used to eat steak with A1 sauce! Chimichurri really brings out the flavor of the meat without changing it. I love the stuff!
Its hard to beat a California or Washington State merlot. Why send your $ to France ?
If it's because of French state sword thrusts, they should be prospering beyond their wildest dreams.
I'll buy a bottle to celebrate, right after Tre Arrow gets handed over to the FBI.
French toast my four year old son of his on accord calls it yellow toast
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That's beyond outstanding. What a clever little kid! :D
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