I think Dean Wormer said it best concerning the boycott of the sniveling French...

"The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me."

It's nice to see the boycott is working.

Later,
bbeck

But Ace, the drop in wine sales from France can easily be explained by simple economic principles...there is now less demand for overpriced crap produced by backstabbing cheese eating surrender monkeys.

I still buy their champagne. Aside from that infrequently purchased item (last bottle I bought was on 11/2/04), what the hell does France make that I want or need?

It never pays to be rude to us.

I note the drop in value is much more then the drop in volume. Would/could this be an indication that the French tried to slash prices to move their stuff yet still failed to do so?

Or it could mean that the expensive labels are taking a bigger hit.

I make it a point to NEVER buy French wine.

Plus California's doing great, and so are Australia and Chile.

I need to look into which CA winery Nancy Pelosi owns, so we don't let her benefit from the boycott of France.

Some relatives of mine got a postcard at the end of October from a Santa Cruz, CA winery, of whose wine club they had been (briefly) members. The postcard had a picture of a little baby releasing a world-shaped balloon into the air, over the word "VOTE!"

My relatives responded with a postcard reading "We received your thinly disguised Kerry propaganda, and have poured all your wine down the drain". No response, of course.

More French are Muslim...no drinklie winkie.
These people just 'take' party favors from their dates, so no need to get the women...drunkie wunkie...Then We Americans hate you ungrateful French frogs....oops we will drink CA, Aussie, and Chilean...oh and our economy is booming, dating is up and US wine consumption and good-time boom-time party favors are conssentual and through the roof. The French wine industry should feel like the skinny kid with glasses picked last for dodgeballand they can thank Mr. Chirac for their athletic prowess during the economic boom of 2004-2005.

Pelosi own a small vineyard, so there's no telling which wineries buy her grapes. But E&J Gallo is the largest contributor to her campaign and also hundreds of thoudsands of dollars to the Democratic Senatorial Relection PAC. These guys make E&J Brandy, Carlo Rossi Jug Wine, and of course Gallo Thunderbird. They also make some high end wines like Turning Leaf.

And now you know.

France makes wine?

Huh.

I wouldn't know. I drink bourbon. Kentucky makes that.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge