A billion bottles of wine going to waste...

[TheMonkey]

You'll never believe this. I was driving one of my many Lambos the other day when the bespoke satellite navigation system I designed (it was one of my many international companies that launched the satellite, by the way - NASA have approached me but I told them I only deal with larger customers) briefly malfunctioned. Luckily I soon recognised that I was passing by one of the vinyards I own, so I stopped and had a chat with some of my staff. I didn't like the attitude of the head viticulturalist so I fired him and later had him killed by the King of Denmark. Anyway, I tried some of my wine which was very nice.

Threaded.

[Gibbon]

New world wines and especially their shirazs are homegenous puke.

[expat]

If I'm reading the original article right, we don't want to buy this thin inconsistent French mouthwash any more: but they have fixed the EU so that we still have to pay French growers for it, even if we don't drink it.

Adam Smith must be glad he's dead.

[Lucifer Box]

I'm all yours LB (in a non-sexual, but vin-wise way, of course...)!

I may allow Mrs Lucifer a small taste, but otherwise it's mine, all mine, yes precious. What has he got in his pocketses?

[Joe Black]

If I'm reading the original article right, we don't want to buy this thin inconsistent French mouthwash any more: but they have fixed the EU so that we still have to pay French growers for it, even if we don't drink it.

Adam Smith must be glad he's dead.

Even better expat, "under the Common Agricultural Policy, the farmers will then be paid for not producing wine but for keeping up environmental standards on their land instead"

[Shimano105]

Wine is good, but overrated

I think a lot of people like to hang on to the 'French is best' line because that is the way it has always been.

But I think many of the old classic wines seem light and thin to me.

I still think that good beer is best though, even more so because it doesn't usually get the attentions of the pretentious wine fraternity.

Good beer? Classic real ales (which seem better than ever these days) and proper, imported continental lagers, none of your 'brewed under licence' malarky.

Mind you, I think that this whole thread could be offensive to Muslims and so should be behead... I mean deleted.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Terrible to reflect that I live in a country that has 450 varieties of beer.