wine is cheap and nobody is buying it, so lets RAISE the price!!! yeah that's the ticket...
Posted on 06/17/2007 1:03:17 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
Vendors who make terroristic threats because the government won’t coerce neighbors to pay more for their product deserve to be treated like the criminals they are.
“That ended with the French army shooting dead six demonstrators.”
Seems fitting if they promote violence against folks for either not paying higher prices for their product or for purchasing or selling wine from other countries.
Maybe Trader Joe could use this to come up with some one-buck Chuck.
That sums it up pretty well.
Here in Arizona, Trader Joe sells some French wine for $2.99 per bottle (Cabernet, not "Red Table Wine"). They have several wines in the range of $2.99-$4.99. I've noticed that since Sarkozy's victory, sales have picked up.
Sounds like a good time to rework the business model. Maybe a Napa-style winery tour bed and breakfast resort kind of thing marketed heavily at well-to-do American urban lefties. It’d cost a bit to get it up and running, but they could charge a premium for it. Either that- or some similarly creative solution- or get out of the business.
Starting a shooting war over it is completely absurd.
I'm sorry for their families, but if no one wants their wine I don't see how you get around that.
What they are fighting against is market demand. Violence is hardly a convincing argument when targeted against the few groups that could actually help you out.
As I hear it, much of this wine is being bought up to convert for other purposes so it won't be a total waste.
I think the problem is truly "too many vineyards producing swill".
So they want to commit terrorist acts for people not drinking their swill? Lovely...
Story from winter, 2007 -
French vintners will boil away millions of litres of Beaujolais wine into fuel additives, disinfectants and cleaning products. The reason? There’s a glut of wine on the European market.
French wine makers blame the overproduction on overseas competition and less wine drinkers.
The socialists in the European Union are paying vintners to destroy their wine stock, turn it into alcohol or rip out vineyards.
Philippe Terrollion, director of the Beaujolais Distillery in central-eastern France, sent out a fleet of lorries to pick up an expected 8.5 million litres of unbottled, unsold Beaujolais. That’s enough to fill about 125 swimming pools.
Wine consumers around the globe are reaching for wines produced in the New World, such as wine produced in Chile, Australia and the United States.
One winemaker blamed a pernicious arrogance among the French.
“In France, we used to think we were the biggest and best and no-one could touch us,” said Louis-Fabrice Latour, who heads the Louis Latour label in Burgundy.
“It’s clear we can’t go on like this,” said Terrollion.
French wine is great, but after they dissed us in 03, I stopped buying French and went to Australian.
The bulk of the unsold wine falls pretty much in the later category. Most Beaujolias, for example, is pretty thin and mediocre stuff which as long been overpriced because of (1) the novelty value (heaviliy promoted) of Nouveau Beaujolias, (2) the 9 classified growths of Beaujolais which can sometimes be decent, and (3) lack of light, fresh red alternatives as simple burgundies (pinot noir) became expensive (and pinot noir wines made elsewhere were neither common nor particularly successful). Now, as tastes have changed, people are less satisfied with gamay-based wines, and the alternatives at more attractive prices from South American and Australia, as well as the increase in the availablity of inexpensive (if pretty tasteless) simple pinot noir based wines from the Pacific Northwest and California.
It's curious, but over the past 5 years or so, I have consistently found good French wine to be a better value for money than similar wines in California (though I am a 5th generation Californian whose family has been in wine in California since the late 19th century).
Influx of Muslims? I'm just asking.
As an Aussie I may be biased but our wines are pretty good. What I'd like to try is some Texan red wines. Any suggestions?
Socialism at its finest is the cause.
They want the government to fix their failure to be good businessmen.
wine is cheap and nobody is buying it, so lets RAISE the price!!! yeah that's the ticket...
I have tried wines from all over the world and you are correct. The Australian wines I've had so far are very consistent bottle to bottle. I have tried several types, Chardonnay, Shiraz, Cabs.... I am going to try a Yalumba muscat next week.
LEt them make alcohol and sell it for fuel.
Welcome to the free market. However, Sarkozy’s reforms may make French products more competitive.
Whisky Rebellion? Okay, French political culture has shown, that violence works. If you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it. France subsidizes violent politics, so why wouldn’t the wine-growers turn to the French State to extort from their fellow citizens?
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