Posted on 07/03/2020 7:56:32 PM PDT by hapnHal
CALIFORNIA Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday ordered wineries in 19 counties to close amid surging coronavirus cases but his own winery and tasting room remains open.
Newsom made the announcement after the Golden State reported a nearly 50 percent increase in COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks.Indoor operations at restaurants, wineries, and tasting rooms, family entertainment centers, movie theaters, zoos, museums, and cardroom gambling businesses were ordered to close down.
The updated coronavirus restrictions apply to 19 counties, including Los Angeles, that have been on the states monitoring list because of an increasing number of cases for three straight days.
But, as noted by Californias KMPH-TV, Newsoms winery and tasting room in Napa Valley PlumpJack Wines is still open.The winery's website explains Newsom found PlumpJack Wines in 1992 as his first business.
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Aunt Nancypreferential treatment.
“....maybe not the volume...”
In the US wines have become common and are purchased based upon price, style, and availability. When a region gets saturated with the amount of wineries like NAPA they lose their competitiveness and start to sell what they can...hence the largest selling wine in the US is white zinfandel which is one of the cheapest wines on the market. But it is marketed as a cross breed which can go with everything so the public thinks they are smart for buying it, not necessarily for quality as for campiness. Prior to the drugs that keep me from consuming alcohol now, I wouldn’t clean spark plugs with it.
So in the grape producing areas, volume is more profitable thus greater sales. Quality is secondary but not as profitable. After all, most of the people elected Obama twice. Same thing.
rwood
Lots of the very wealthy have country estates nearby. I assume the French Laundry is open this weekend so Gavin and his friends can dine in style.
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