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U.S. wine exports to Canada have fallen off a cliff (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

Wine is also so easy and cheap to make at home. The only reason to buy commercial wines is if you're picky about the specific flavours. How many people do you know that are that picky? Pretty much everyone I know enjoys some wine on occasion and not a single one of them care about what kind of wine is served.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Looking at the graph I thought it was going to be one of those 60M - 50M on the Y axis. Nope bottom is 0. That's an insane drop

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Same here. That's crazy!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Fabulous.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 17 hours ago

BC here. We’ve stopped buying American wine though that wasn’t a common occurrence anyway. Now we’re buying primarily BC wines, with some imported from countries that aren’t America.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Great 👍
BC has some amazing wines!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago

I bet the only remaining sales are in Saskatchewan and Alberta who have governments who have said fuck it.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 20 hours ago

Americans have no idea how good they had it under Biden. But they will know how awful things will be under Trump.

Keep it up, guys.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago

Don't worry we're gonna blame Biden anyway

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

And his son! /s

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

... you didn't need that "/s"

[-] [email protected] 33 points 20 hours ago

Keeping that elbow up with the fantastic Canadian wines and beers we have.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

I live in Niagara and I'll be the first to say that vqa wines are not all that.

But I'd rather get a vqa, or other Canadian wine, over supporting the USA and their tariffs.

They're certainly not bad, but they're also not "all that" either. I'll happily keep buying Canadian. I'll probably keep that up after the tariffs because I like supporting our economy, instead of sending all my dollars over to the USA for the same thing we can make here.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

I mean, we have the option to buy the table wine from a Canadian winery and an occasional fancy bottle from somewhere in Europe. Keep it up!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Best wine I have ever had was decades ago, it was called Unity Wine. It was a joint venture between a BC Oganagan wine producer and a Niagara producer, where they blended their products. Here is one blend. https://www.cellartracker.com/m/wines/107991

[-] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

They are different beasts. BC has a less ideal climate and slightly shorter season. Your beer is great while your wines are less reliable at this point. Climate change will alter this but right now this is the case.

Portugal has the best QPR in wine IMO

Source: 30 years in the alcohol business.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

The thing about buying Portugese (or other nationality) wines is it still boycotts America.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes, and you will get a solid bottle for less than buying a US wine.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 20 hours ago

Yes, stupid trumponians don't understand that some things are extremely easy to substitute. Alcohol is one of such things.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago

Make it drop to zero alongside our tourism. Make Americans pay for not opposing fascists sooner when they had a better chance.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

More!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Murican here. France and Italy have much better wines anyway, and they're still much better than California wines even if they cost twice as much. Wished we could get BC wines here in Washington state.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Maybe we keep the good stuff in California, but in my wine drinking experience so far, French and Italian wines aren't noticeably better. In fact, all the best wines I've had have been Californian, but that could be because I got it at the winery itself.

Less demand for California wines means they're cheaper for me, that's not a bad thing in my book.

Stick it to us Canada, we sure fucking deserve it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

[-] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Nice, very nice.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Does that mean that we only buy ~$40m of US wine per month? Or we did, before the stupidity.

I assumed the number would be much higher.

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