Posted on 11/06/2016 4:42:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
“This isn’t so much a harvest, as a hunt for grapes,” said French winemaker Jean-Jacques Robert, with a rueful laugh as he unloaded grapes still warm from his vineyards around Fuisse in Burgundy.
“It’s a catastrophe, the worst harvest for 30 or 40 years,” said the normally cheery 64-year-old owner of Domaine Robert-Denogent.
The organic winemaker lost between two-thirds and three-quarters of his harvest in one hailstorm in April.
He is not alone. For thousands of French winemakers, 2016 will go down as an annus horribilis, with vines destroyed by frost, heavy rain, hailstones “as big as ping pong balls”, mildew and drought near the Mediterranean. …
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Global warming.
I’m sure the growing Texas wine industry will be glad to pick up the slack.
Global Cooling. Caused by the sun.
I’m sure nothing like this has ever happened before.
C’est la vie
Wine from Texas? Vomit.
Way back in the old days, I used to buy some French wines and lay them down in the cellar. Now, we just buy whatever is good and cheap. Australian, or whatever.
How rude.
Have you ever tried some?
..Grocery outlet had a 20% off sale of their wines and yesterday I scored a 3L berry mix wine that was originally $8.50, on sale for $7.50 and then the 20% off.....
so why do I care if France is low on wine grapes....lol
Wrong, the climate and soil on the Hill Country is just like Sonoma valley.
..Grocery outlet had a 20% off sale of their wines and yesterday I scored a 3L berry mix wine that was originally $8.50, on sale for $7.50 and then the 20% off.....
so why do I care if France is low on wine grapes....
For me - this is quite depressing.
An old French superstition. At the beginning of a war or bad times, the wine harvest is bad. The year that the war ends or good times return, the wine harvest is very good.
I’ll have to pull out my old Climatology textbook, but I doubt it. Sounds like Texas talk.
Isaiah 24
For the LORD has spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish.
5 The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left.
7 The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh.
Nelson, Thomas. Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 684). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
There are plenty of excellent American wines & I look forward to trying Texas varietals.
The Froggies can keep their overpriced plonk & sell it to invading Muslims. F***ez-vous, France!
Hey Central_va - I’ve had some really wonderful wines from your next of the woods recently.
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