XPost: soc.culture.russian, soc.culture.french, soc.culture.europe   
   From: Pepper_Roni@MixedNuts.au   
      
   "KvekIT"  wrote in message   
   news:RPZbh.40781$yw5.1245269@wagner.videotron.net...   
   > Cindy Anna Jones wrote:   
   >> The French are desperate to drain their wine lake especially since   
   >> top-notch American and Australian wines means nobody's buying French. And   
   >> so the French have huge inventories of wine they can't move.   
   >   
   > It's globalization. French wines are still dominating the markets. The   
   > difference is that they are not alone anymore.   
   >   
      
   They ain't dominating. Sorry.   
      
   French wines are now considered second-rate.   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> They have been converting much of it to ethanol. Running your car on   
   >> French wine? Better than being forced to drink it, no doubt.   
   >>   
   >> Now the French have figured out another way to get rid of the stuff. They   
   >> are gonna get little kids hooked on it.   
   >>   
   >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6198784.stm   
   >>   
   >> BTW... I hear Putin is gonna make super-cheap "social" vodka available in   
   >> Russia to try and stop people from dying from drinking the poison bootleg   
   >> stuff.   
   >>   
   >> What's even funnier is Russia wants to trademark the term "vodka" so only   
   >> vodka made in Russia can be called vodka. A couple hundred years too late   
   >> for the Russian intellectual property thieves?   
      
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