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Deluge of fine wine dismays the French
GuardianUnlimited ^
| September 17, 2006
| Jason Burke
Posted on 09/16/2006 7:04:30 PM PDT by quantim
It is the ultimate irony. For the wine growers of Bordeaux, already suffering a financial crisis, the season has been too good. Though the quality appears to offer hope of salvation, the quantity of the 2006 vintage is causing problems.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: agriculture; boycotts; cleaningfluid; europeanunion; france; nato; oenology; sanctions; solvents; tariffs; trade; wine; zymurgy
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All the climatic conditions have been perfectBut, but, I thought global warming was going to cause drought and floods worldwide.
Seriously, we'll know in a few weeks if low prices cause more riots and bombings again this year among the socialist French growers.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:04:30 PM PDT
by
quantim
To: quantim
Hmm. This wine glut has been going on for a while now.
Oh, well. Supply and demand.
::loads up on dirt-cheap, high-quality wine::
To: NautiNurse; Amerigomag; andrew2527; AnAmericanMother; A Jovial Cad; Awgie; babaloo; Betis70; ...
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:08:09 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: quantim
"For the wine growers of Bordeaux, already suffering a financial crisis, the season has been too good."
Sorry folks but we continue to use a domestic toilet bowl cleaner.
To: quantim
BooooooooFriggggginnnnnn Hooooooooooo.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:09:33 PM PDT
by
shankbear
To: Gordongekko909
loads more two buck chuck
To: quantim
Wine is probably one of the few things not taxed to death in France. When I visited, I was surprised at all the $1 and $2 bottles of good wine.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:11:41 PM PDT
by
varyouga
(I no longer fear death. I only fear the day when the DUmmies take over.)
To: quantim
Another French whine story.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:12:06 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Katherine Harris for U.S. Senate)
To: NautiNurse
Yeah, but I do have some pity on the peasant growers - they're not all evil. They have libs that ruin everything for them, too.
If the Frenchies (the masses, not the few who get it) would embrace capitalism instead of Marxist notions, they very well could turn this around.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:21:04 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: quantim
It'a French. I still ain't buying.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:26:56 PM PDT
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: No Truce With Kings
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:28:29 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
To: quantim
If the Frenchies (the masses, not the few who get it) would embrace capitalism instead of Marxist notions, they very well could turn this around.So many Muslims, so little time.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:30:14 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Katherine Harris for U.S. Senate)
To: quantim
French wines have become as unnecessary as the French themselves...
The "real deal" can be had without going to France -- for wine and allies.
Fruck the Fench...
Semper Fi
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:32:23 PM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: quantim
Who picks the grapes the Frenchies won't pick...
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:32:34 PM PDT
by
tubebender
(Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
To: quantim
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:33:15 PM PDT
by
wolfpat
(To connect the dots, you have to collect the dots.)
To: quantim
It's all those muzzie immigrants, they don't drink wine.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:37:12 PM PDT
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire.)
To: quantim
Oenology news ping. Include me, please!
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:42:19 PM PDT
by
balrog666
(Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi)
To: river rat
LOL, look at the bright side, the dems/libs/envirowackos won't let us drill in Anwar, so:
The Europeans, it turns out, typically have lots of surplus wine they can't sell—and some of it ends up in American gas tanks.
It happens like this: The European governments offer "distillation credits"—a subsidy for wine producers to turn the surplus wine into alcohol. And American companies like Archer Daniels Midland Co. have been buying the European wine alcohol at auctions and turning it into ethanol.
Ethanol is used as a gasoline supplement, an "oxygenate" to help reduce auto pollution. It will replace MTBE in California gasoline in the next two years. So some of that European wine wound up in American gas tanks.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:47:50 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: quantim
I think the French are starting to come to the realization that no thanks to their non-support on the War on Terror, Americans are now turning big time to wines in Portugal, Italy, Australia and from US domestic production. The only French wineries that will survive are those who specialize in expensive, high-end wines that sell for over US$40 per "fifth" (750 ml) bottle.
To: quantim
We're in for a global wine glut in the next few years.
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posted on
09/16/2006 7:53:54 PM PDT
by
aculeus
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