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Terroirism
Thanks to Kerry's piece from last week, I was aware that French vintners are resentful of competiton from wine upstarts in places like California, Australia, and Chile, which is taking a bite out of profits in Bordeaux. I didn't realize just how resentful. From an article linked by Prof. Bainbridge:
Terrorist attacks by radical wine producers on government offices in the south of France yesterday served notice that the country's wine crisis may be spinning out of control...."The government had better respond clearly to our needs before the demonstration on 20 April," Denis Verdier, the president of the confederation of French wine cooperatives, said recently.
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|4.5.05 @ 5:56PM|#
Daddy, I wanna go to Florida!
|4.5.05 @ 6:05PM|#
Misseur Vedier has popped his cork!
|4.5.05 @ 6:09PM|#
What could be worse than a drunk French winemaker rioting?
|4.5.05 @ 6:14PM|#
Doesn't this seem like something right out of Monty Python?
|4.5.05 @ 6:44PM|#
The link at Prof. Bainbridge's site is a link to a site that requires users to pay for content. Here is a write-up of the story that doesn't require you to pay:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=348972005
|4.5.05 @ 6:55PM|#
--What could be worse than a drunk French winemaker rioting?
A mob of boulangers brandishing baguettes.
|4.5.05 @ 7:26PM|#
... or a charging chapter of cheesemakers.
Terrorist attacks by radical wine producers
That is a wonderful phrase.
|4.5.05 @ 8:16PM|#
How much is bottle of radical wine going for?
And has the 2004 vintage been released for sale yet?
|4.5.05 @ 8:33PM|#
I wonder how the Trotskyite Grey Poupon makers are doing?
|4.5.05 @ 8:46PM|#
I think they just want to wine.
|4.5.05 @ 9:36PM|#
Terroirism
I finally got this. Beautiful.
|4.5.05 @ 10:33PM|#
They brandish the only molotov cocktails with a punt.
|4.6.05 @ 2:26AM|#
But if the french government gives into the demands of the radical wine producers .... then "the terrorists will have won" :)
|4.6.05 @ 7:48AM|#
This is too good. At least they can drown in their sorrows. Apperntly French mussilems do not drink wine. Apparently French Muslims do not drink wine.