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US Winemakers Seek To Reduce Alcohol Content
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 1-11-2008
| Tom Leonard
Posted on 01/10/2008 7:20:53 PM PST by blam
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:20:55 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Makes sense, the less alcohol the more wine you have to drink, that means you have to buy more wine which means more money for the winery... or I’d just switch to tequila and laugh as the winery went out of business.
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:23:16 PM PST
by
utherdoul
To: blam
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:24:25 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Rabbit and the Hare … Fred ‘08)
To: blam
To paraphrase Monty Pyton skit, it will be like making love in a canoe.
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:25:53 PM PST
by
DTA
(Advice to Condi: when you are in a hole, stop digging)
To: blam
I imagine MD 20-20, Wild Irish Rose, Thunderbird and Night Train Express won’t be affected.
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:26:21 PM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: blam
"Trying to limit alcohol content while retaining flavour is an increasingly major challenge for wine producers as the effects of climate change become more marked." I wonder what this food critic thinks about his editor slipping that breathtakingly idiotic global warming plug into his wine story.
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:28:23 PM PST
by
antinomian
(Show me a robber baron and I'll show you a pocket full of senators.)
To: blam
Personally I don’t drink period, but it’s interesting to note the article is really about the European taste, thus their market, and Globull Warming. I find it “verrrrrry interesting, but shtoopid”.
If memory serves me, the California wines have been walking away with award after award in European Wine evaluations/contests if you will. If something works, why fix it?
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:35:30 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: blam
Californian "monster" wines regularly contain 15% vol alcohol and some are as high as 17%, alarming some of their own producers despite the praise of critics. >>>>>>>>>>>>
Euwwww! Gross, Effete Americanos with European wine palates? Give me the monster. I am an American, and I can take it.You Euro gurly men can have your reduced pseudo wines!
LOL.
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:43:01 PM PST
by
Candor7
To: Brad from Tennessee
I imagine MD 20-20, Wild Irish Rose, Thunderbird and Night Train Express wont be affected.
As a former connaisseur of capped wines, I don't think they get within 50 miles of a grape.
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:51:39 PM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: Thrownatbirth
I think some of higher priced brands might use a grape concentrate but it may be an artificial grape.
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posted on
01/10/2008 7:55:43 PM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: Brad from Tennessee
I imagine MD 20-20, Wild Irish Rose, Thunderbird and Night Train Express wont be affected.
Had Mad Dog 20-20 once. Couldn’t look at another pint of it....even after my eyesight came back.
To: Thrownatbirth
There maybe a Grape Flavored MD 20-20.
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posted on
01/10/2008 9:07:34 PM PST
by
weegee
(Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
To: utherdoul
“Makes sense, the less alcohol the more wine you have to drink, that means you have to buy more wine which means more money for the winery... or Id just switch to tequila and laugh as the winery went out of business.”
Yeah, this is defiantly not the consumer complaining about this. It is the retailer and critics that 97% of the wine consumers don’t know or care what they think. I have never bought wine based on alcohol content and can’t even tell you what the content of the wine I have at home.
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posted on
01/10/2008 10:18:45 PM PST
by
neb52
(Quid agis, Medice?)
To: blam
He said it was impossible for two people to share a bottle over dinner as the wines overwhelmed the meal. Speak for yourself Mac. I can always finish a bottle with my wife if we're at home. She has one glass and I polish off the other 3-1/2, no sweat.
-ccm
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posted on
01/10/2008 10:51:40 PM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: blam
Just as long as they don’t mess with my Thunderbird.
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posted on
01/11/2008 1:34:47 AM PST
by
Rudder
To: weegee
The WAS a grape MD 20/20 - I lived on the stuff at GWU. You could get the 21% Mad Dog in DC much to the detriment of my GPA.
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posted on
01/11/2008 2:52:23 AM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: blam
"He said it was impossible for two people to share a bottle over dinner as the wines overwhelmed the meal."Utter nonsense. The wines I regularly drink are between 12% and 14%. But some I have laid back are in the 15% - 16%. Excellent with the right meal.
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posted on
01/11/2008 5:26:25 AM PST
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: quantim
To: blam
Personally, I think California wines generally suck. But, then I’m spoiled on a winery that regularly beats Napa wines when they go head to head.
To: blam
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posted on
01/11/2008 9:09:37 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
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