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French Wine Exports Drowning
News24 [Cape Town, South Africa] ^ | May 29, 2005 | Adrienne Taylor [South African Press Assn]

Posted on 05/29/2005 3:11:18 PM PDT by quidnunc

Paris – French wine exports sank again in the first quarter of 2005 confirming a downward spiral which has plunged the sector into crisis and brought thousands of wine-growers out onto the streets in protest.

"Global over-production in 2004, which is put at between 10 to 20 million hectolitres, is pulling prices down and adding to the problems of French wines which are being asked to become simpler in taste to meet growing world consumption," said Louis-Regis Affre, an official from the French Federation of Exporters of Wines and Spirits (FEVS).

Apart from champagnes and sparkling wines, exports of French wine dropped some 13.0% in value and 13.2% in volume in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year, FEVS said.

This adds to the misery seen in 2004, when French wine exports lost some 9.2% in value, of which some €752m ($943m) were lost in just the first quarter.

The French government recently unlocked €7m in aid in a bid to throw a lifebuoy to the country's wine producers, but for many it is merely a drop in the ocean.

"It's very little in relation to what is actually needed, and the framework to implement it isn't even in place yet," said Affre.

On Wednesday, thousands of producers took to the streets of the southern city of Nimes in the Languedoc-Roussillon region demanding further emergency measures to save wine-growers from disaster.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: boycott; boycotts; callthewaaaambulance; cleaningfluid; europeanunion; france; frenchwine; nato; oenology; sanctions; solvents; tariffs; trade; wine
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To: Clemenza

The only thing Cornell University did right was the development of the Cayuga grape. Check out NY wineries that are based on Cayuga. Outstanding flavor. I rather like Bully Hill, Swedish Hill (also Goose Neck), Heron Hill and Hunt Country (to name a few).


101 posted on 05/29/2005 5:49:30 PM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel
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To: bill1952
Is drunk a verb?

drink ( P ) Pronunciation Key (drngk) v. drank, (drngk) drunk, (drngk) drink·ing, drinks v. tr.

To take into the mouth and swallow (a liquid).

To swallow the liquid contents of (a vessel): drank a cup of tea.

To take in or soak up; absorb: drank the fresh air; spongy earth that drank up the rain.

To take in eagerly through the senses or intellect: drank in the beauty of the day.

To give or make (a toast).

To toast (a person or an occasion, for example): We'll drink your health.

To bring to a specific state by drinking alcoholic liquors: drank our sorrows away.

--Dictionary.com

102 posted on 05/29/2005 5:50:43 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: xzins

Just because French's is yellow, it doesn't mean it's French...


103 posted on 05/29/2005 5:57:44 PM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist.)
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To: quidnunc
French wine exports sank again

Free enterprise forever!

104 posted on 05/29/2005 6:02:41 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: quidnunc
WWJD... Who Wants Jack Daniel's?

Heck... I DO!

Trajan88

105 posted on 05/29/2005 6:04:58 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: xzins

Support your local wineries. You'll find YOUR favorites.

Of Course!

Maine has many many wineries.

I think sone one makes blueberry wine downeast.

Think about it...bluebery wine.


106 posted on 05/29/2005 6:06:46 PM PDT by mlmr (CHICKIE-POO!)
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To: quidnunc

Ah, the French, how can I say this?

Too F'ing bad, I will buy nothing made by the French, not one thing.

Not even their Whine!


107 posted on 05/29/2005 6:08:25 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry & Democrats; supported, financed, trained, guided, revered, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: bill1952

prelimingary results: drunk is inded a dverb


108 posted on 05/29/2005 6:09:27 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (Defeat Pat DeWine, RINO Mike DeWine's son! Tom Brinkman for Congress http://www.gobrinkman.com/)
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I only buy french ski equipment


109 posted on 05/29/2005 6:20:03 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod ( I'm going to open Cobra Kai dojos all over this valley!)
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California alone has 1,600 wineries. its a world wide glut


110 posted on 05/29/2005 6:22:13 PM PDT by KneelBeforeZod ( I'm going to open Cobra Kai dojos all over this valley!)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

I feel soooooo bad from them. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Drown in it you POS country. I wouldn't buy anything from that useless country!!


111 posted on 05/29/2005 6:24:19 PM PDT by bfree (Liberals are evil)
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To: Lady Jag
Just overpriced here. It's not unusual to buy wine in France for $5 an buy the exact same bottle, year and all, for $100 here.

I won't pay $5 here for that swill. Drown in it France.

112 posted on 05/29/2005 6:27:14 PM PDT by bfree (Liberals are evil)
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To: 50sDad

I did.


113 posted on 05/29/2005 6:27:49 PM PDT by KingofQue
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To: KneelBeforeZod
I only buy french ski equipment

aren't you special? I only buy white flags from the disgusting frogs.

114 posted on 05/29/2005 6:30:38 PM PDT by bfree (Liberals are evil)
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To: bfree
If the French get stuck with their wine, they're going to have to drink it. Maybe they already are. Maybe it's drunkenness that makes them such losers.
115 posted on 05/29/2005 6:32:20 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: ktvaughn

Who cares? Hopefully France sinks into an abyss they can NEVER recover from.


116 posted on 05/29/2005 6:34:31 PM PDT by bfree (Liberals are evil)
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To: MissouriConservative

Gimme a name.


117 posted on 05/29/2005 6:34:32 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Leftists would have no standards at all)
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To: Texas Eagle

Harald


118 posted on 05/29/2005 6:37:19 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (Defeat Pat DeWine, RINO Mike DeWine's son! Tom Brinkman for Congress http://www.gobrinkman.com/)
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To: quidnunc; Yehuda; rmlew; Clemenza
Economics 101, if you don't make money growing one crop you switch to a crop that makes money or get into a business that makes money. The Frenchies should stop producing wine and get out of the business altogether. Once TROP takes over it will be illegal to make alcoholic beverages according to Sharia.

As for myself, I don't drink piss in a bottle, no matter where it comes from.



119 posted on 05/29/2005 6:41:41 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: quidnunc
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120 posted on 05/29/2005 7:09:21 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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