What is wine terrorism?
By Jessica Yadegaran
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 5:15 pm in France, Wine, economy.
I saw this post about France’s latest domestic threat, and it has nothing to do with religious extremists.
According to Time magazine, it seems grape growers in the Languedoc-Roussillon region — where some of my favorite dry rose is produced — who are suffering from overproduction and a bad economy think it’s a good idea to destroy hundreds of thousand of dollars in equipment and property, because, you know, that’s how to get Nicolas Sarkozy’s attention and sympathy.
I agree with the comment at the end of the post. The word terrorism is used too loosely these days. How can it possibly be associated with fermented grape juice? Perhaps when discussing phylloxera. Settle down, Frenchies. Newspapers and automobiles are going down the drain. Wine, on the other hand, is still thriving.
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