This is so stupid, wine doesn't go bad. Just make more vintages and sell them when demand returns. Write it off as a long-term investment.

Uprooting decades-old grapevines because of momentary fluctuations in the market is fucking stupid.

You'd think this would mean wine would get cheaper or something, but actually it means that several thousands of bushels of grapes are going to rot, because capitalism demands profit over common sense

Tariffs have reduced exports, particularly to Canada, which was the largest foreign buyer of American wine.

Uh sure, it was the tariffs, and not the widespread Canadian boycott of American alcohol.

Then why is everything still $40/bottle? This is some bs “nobody wants to work anymore” logic. I stopped drinking California wine because the prices kept going up but my wages haven’t.

I used to accidentally buy some California wine every now and then when not paying attention and grabbing a selection, it was never that good.

Since trump 2.0 now i check everything to make sure it's not American. This isn't really surprising news

A lot of the regions in California have become stupid expensive, like Napa and Sonoma. Anything decent out of Napa is in the $30-$50 range. The average bottle price is somewhere around $75.

And the entry-level stuff from Europe is better than the entry-level stuff from California. If I had to choose between a $15 Cabernet from California and a $15 Bordeaux, I'm choosing the Bordeaux. You'll also get a better price/quality ratio out of South America. Chile and Argentina make some good wines.

Well, the usual "free market"bullshit would dictate that the price drops until it finds enough demand again. But thanks to whatever bull shit system we currently have the price stays the same and they just write off everything that doesn't sell and they throw it away.

Canada's also not buying as much California wine due to Trump's trade war and general insulting manner.

And the smell of rot fills the country.

Steinbeck 1939

I bet it helps a lot alienation an entire market to the north.

Grapes are almost $9 a pound. These motherfuckers are out of their mind. A bag of grapes is $15 fucking dollars

It’s pretty tough in Australia for wineries too however, you still can find good wine fairly cheap. That’s good because it’s pretty tough for everyone at the moment with inflation being driven by Trump closing the Straight of Hormuz.

I like Bota Breeze for lower alcohol and cost efficient, something easy to enjoy with healthy home cooked food! Less or no alcohol is good trend to see for our health.

My wife is doing her part to keep that demand up.

Wait until "it" happens and wine sales will go through the roof!

Seems like a good time to start making a fuck tun (~million butt loads) of brandy and dump excess inventory into that.