California's Wine Industry Is in Crisis

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JumpCrisscross

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California's wine industry is facing a crisis, with the WSJ article highlighting the challenges it faces, and commenters discussing potential causes and implications for the local economy.

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throwaway81523

3 months ago

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Somebody ought to package that grapes, and sell it for snacks.

shawn_w

3 months ago

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Do wine grapes make good eating grapes?

throwaway81523

3 months ago

It's a reference to an old TV commercial (I saw it later than the 1970s though, I'm pretty sure).

https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/s7hs8k/tomt_...

I didn't try clicking the facebook link, because facebook, but maybe you can see the commercial there.

I expected the commercial to be better known and remembered, with copies on youtube and so on, but it appears very obscure. It came to my mind right away. Oh well.

wrboyce

3 months ago

Not generally, no.

Tiktaalik

3 months ago

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Startlingly bad journalism from a paper as good as the WSJ. Is the paper trying to appease the administration in so obviously deviating from the reality of events?

> Over the winter, different alarm bells sounded. At the start of the year, President Trump threatened Canada with a slew of tariffs. In response, Canadians pulled California wines off store shelves, along with other American-made alcohol. U.S. wine exports to Canada dropped 96% in the second quarter—from nearly $111 million last year to under $4 million this year—and the U.S. wine trade surplus with Canada has flipped to a deficit for the first time ever.

Trump did not merely threaten Canada with tariffs. Canadians would be annoyed but not remarkably so if that were the only issue.

Trump repeatedly threatened Canada with annexation.

consumer451

3 months ago

Maybe trying to appease, maybe just normalcy bias.

I mean, could you imagine an American president threatening to annex Canada? That would be totally freaking insane, right?

mitchbob

3 months ago

https://archive.ph/6isaz

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