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[Professor Bainbridge on Wine] Solving France's Problems: Frenchvintners failed to convince the consumer that they should buy Frenchwine instead of Australian wine. They failed to study what the foreign consumer wanted, how they shopped, what... Solving France's Problems Alder has a tres amusing post positing a solution for the Frenchwine

[Avenue Vine] Thousands demonstrate yesterday in Nimes: Exports of French wine, excluding champagne and sparkling wine, fell by 13.2% in volume and 13% in value in the first quarter of 2005 from a year earlier, the French Federation of Exporters of Wines and Spirits (FEVS) reported this week.

[Fermentations.blogspot.com] FERMENTATIONS is now here: HTTP://WWW.FERMENTATIONS.TYPEPAD.COM: Jonathon Nossiter, the director of Mondovino, the ridiculous documentary on the affects of globalization on the wine business, must recognize that he is the spiritual propagandist for this band of terrorist, bomb throwing vintners in France. He lionizes them in his film as he pushes the notion that small, "artisan" vintners shouldn't be forced to respond to changing market forces. Nossiter's film inspires this kind of violence by suggesting that small vintners are at the mercy of the "Multinational" wineries and will die out if "something" isn't done.

 [Bkwine.com] BKWine Brief Blog: March 2005: Without claiming to have the words exactly accurate, here are two examples: “If the monopolies disappear the pressure on margins for the importers will increase.” Well, of course, more competition will require more professionalism. Or this one: “It is better both for consumers and producers to keep the monopoly.” Well, it is probably better for those producers who are already established as suppliers to the monopolies with a cosy relationship, but for all the rest who find these markets impenetrable? Maybe it has to do with a fear for increasing competition. But above all it is bizarre to hear a senior manager at a commercial company, presumably believing in some kind of market economy, to advocate a monopoly.

 [Bkwine.com] BKWine Brief Blog: Without claiming to have the words exactly accurate, here are two examples: “If the monopolies disappear the pressure on margins for the importers will increase.” Well, of course, more competition will require more professionalism. Or this one: “It is better both for consumers and producers to keep the monopoly.” Well, it is probably better for those producers who are already established as suppliers to the monopolies with a cosy relationship, but for all the rest who find these markets impenetrable? Maybe it has to do with a fear for increasing competition. But above all it is bizarre to hear a senior manager at a commercial company, presumably believing in some kind of market economy, to advocate a monopoly.

[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: Wine News Archives: The Chronicle this week had a very poorly written and unhelpful article about the first large official tasting of wines from certified Biodynamic producers. In doing a little research before my posting last week about Biodynamic wines I found article after countless article which berated the press and poor un-informed writers like myself who roll their eyes at some Biodynamic practices and unfairly point out some of the more extreme or wacky practices without giving fair play to the much more mundane and sane sounding practices. The only problem with all of these articles, the Chronicle's included, is that they themselves fail to clearly explain or mention what some of these more mundane practices are, as well as to justify the antics involving burying cow horns full of quartz in the cardinal directions of the vineyard to be dug up at the full moon.

[Osusentinel.com] The Sentinel at The Ohio State University- The Open End - French ...: ...Vintners say distilling wine into alcohol would cut surplus stocks - which were swelled by a bumper harvest last year - and help restore the balance between supply and demand. But because of European Union regulations, the process requires getting not only French but also European official approval. A couple of thoughts: 1) pouring it down the drain would be symbolic of how the rest of the country is going 2) Don't you just love the immediate rush to call for government action?

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