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re: Wine grape farmers are setting their fields on fire and selling the land
Posted on 7/30/26 at 3:45 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 7/30/26 at 3:45 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Boomers sold their companies and outsourced their jobs all the India and China and saddled their kids with the national debt and welfare state. Boomers clearly didn't want their kids to succeed.
How's your mama's basement, Scooter?
This post was edited on 7/30/26 at 6:06 pm
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Posted on 7/30/26 at 3:47 pm to DesScorp
"Millenials are killing the _____ industry" has been a running gag the past decade.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 3:50 pm to DesScorp
Well with such an over supply you would think wine prices would be cheaper. They have definitely increased steadily. Especially Willamette Pinots.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 3:50 pm to DesScorp
I remember when China was growing as a world consumer reading an article that widely available good wine at expected prices would all but disappear for American consumption when Chinese demand would outstrip supply both here and in France. Now we're burning fields.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 3:50 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Wine has becone like craft beer Too many options, too expensive, svd most are terrible Still a place for wine but it’s massively overproduced right now
Precisely.
A friend of mine owned a small
Vineyard for several years. He sold his grapes to a high end label that combined his lot with others to make a very high end Cabernet. A few years of bad harvests, combined with a shrinking market and at the time, slowing economy, forced him to get out while he could.
The label he was selling to stopped paying top dollar and opted for cheaper options, thus he had to take way less for his grapes or he couldn’t even offload them at all.
Just wasn’t worth it anymore.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 3:54 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Especially Willamette Pinots.
Willamette Valley is a great pinot region, unlike the fricking Santa Lucia Highlands
Posted on 7/30/26 at 3:57 pm to Geauxld Finger
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A friend of mine owned a small
Vineyard for several years. He sold his grapes to a high end label that combined his lot with others to make a very high end Cabernet. A few years of bad harvests, combined with a shrinking market and at the time, slowing economy, forced him to get out while he could.
The label he was selling to stopped paying top dollar and opted for cheaper options, thus he had to take way less for his grapes or he couldn’t even offload them at all.
Just wasn’t worth it anymore.
Good wine is romantic. People want to know where the grapes were grown, how, and by whom. They want to know how it was made and aged. People don't want to pay top dollar for "commercial" wine that's grown all over, shipped around, smashed together, sold to someone else, and then bottled.
Then there's Caymus, I suppose
Posted on 7/30/26 at 4:03 pm to DesScorp
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Sales have also suffered as many younger drinkers have found traditional wines stodgy and difficult to understand, and preferred canned cocktails, seltzers and nonalcoholic beers and spirits. .
We had to have a word to describe this type of behavior and it rhymed with maggot.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 4:03 pm to DesScorp
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preferred canned cocktails, seltzers and nonalcoholic beers and spirits.
We used to be a nation.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 4:04 pm to DesScorp
When do the laws of supply and demand kick in? I buy a lot of wine and I don’t see the prices coming down. They are going up.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 4:15 pm to DesScorp
Hopefully this means wine prices will generally go down, but I doubt it
Posted on 7/30/26 at 5:00 pm to DesScorp
They did not buy the vineyards to make wine.
They bought the vineyards for the water rights.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 5:05 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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That's interesting because i'm seeing wine becoming a lot more popular around town in birmingham.
Fine wines like Thunderbird?
Posted on 7/30/26 at 5:08 pm to DesScorp
Blame it on the advent of White Claw
Posted on 7/30/26 at 5:18 pm to DesScorp
That’s because two buck chuck is almost ten dollars now! Gen Z doesn’t drink because they’ve been priced out of having an irl social life.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 5:22 pm to DesScorp
Who the frick drinks wine other than suburban soccer moms? I’ve had the $8 a bottle wine to the $150 bottle of wine and it all tastes like arse.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 6:06 pm to kingbob
Posted on 7/30/26 at 6:11 pm to HogBalls
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Who the frick drinks wine other than suburban soccer moms? I’ve had the $8 a bottle wine to the $150 bottle of wine and it all tastes like arse.
This post says more about you than it does wine, chief
Posted on 7/30/26 at 6:14 pm to DesScorp
I'm doing my part. I drink more wine than bourbon or beer these days.
Posted on 7/30/26 at 6:20 pm to GRTiger
Same. We bought so much wine in Napa we had to come home and order a huge wine fridge for storing and aging.
This post was edited on 7/30/26 at 6:20 pm
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