| The French wine industry, as well as the
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| | the bank, although it probably won't be
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| rest of Europe is in a bit of a spin.
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| | as cheap as the supermarket. What you
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| Over production, together with a drop in
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| | loose in the financial swings you more
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| consumption, has lead to millions of
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| | than make up on the knowledge roundabout.
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| litres of French wine and others, being
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| | In the main, these people are passionate
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| turned into alcohol or vinegar and vines
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| | about wine and will be able to give you
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| being grubbed up.Not only that, but we
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| | expert advice. If you become a regular
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| are being flooded by wine from the USA,
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| | customer, you should get invited to wine
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| South America, South Africa, Australia,
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| | tasting sessions, which is the best way
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| New Zealand plus the stuff from the new
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| | to understand the differences in the wide
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| EU members from the Eastern Bloc. If that
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| | variety of grapes and winemaking.There is
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| is not enough, India is starting to
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| | always the internet where buying wine is
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| expand it's small but long established
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| | a click away and there are many different
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| wineries.It has been said that the French
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| | wines available often with tasting notes
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| wine producers have, to some extent,
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| | and personal revues. The latter is the
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| brought this problem on themselves as
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| | key to buying on line although somewhat
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| they were resistant to change when it
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| | time consuming. Check through the
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| came to marketing their wine, preferring
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| | reviews and see who is posting reviews
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| to remain with their traditional labels
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| | and if they are good or bad. You will
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| on the bottles which featured the
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| | need a degree of faith as you cannot be
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| appellation and vineyard, rather than
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| | sure that it is not the proprietors'
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| promoting the grapes used.This new method
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| | brother or wife writing the review.
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| has been used to great effect by the rest
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| | Start with the cheapest wine and get a
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| of the world, aided and abetted by the
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| | selection covering a few people, then
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| supermarket chains, where the knowledge
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| | when the wine arrives do a tasting and
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| of the products they are selling is
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| | see how much you agree or disagree with
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| pretty sketchy on the shop floor.Although
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| | the review. Don't forget to make notes as
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| the new producers are making some very
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| | you will need to refer back at a later
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| good vintage type wine, so good that they
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| | date. Don't just take one wine as a
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| are beating the French at their own game,
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| | comparison, but rather use a selection so
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| their first concern is for a product that
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| | that you can build a profile of those
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| is consistent from year to year and so
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| | reviewers that you can trust and whose
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| there are vast swathes of vines being
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| | taste in wine matches yours. Then you
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| used. That is the problem, the whole
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| | will be able to buy on line with a
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| magic and mystery of wine making and
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| | reasonable certainty that if you buy the
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| drinking is being sanitised for
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| | same wines, you will not be
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| supermarket profits by the big
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| | disappointed.The absolutely best way to
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| multinational companies.Just as the
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| | buy French wine, or indeed any wine, is
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| artisan butchers, bakers and the rest
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| | to get in a car and drive around the
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| have been marginalised by the stack'em up
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| | countryside looking at the little
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| and sell'em cheap, so the winemakers are
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| | vineyards and tasting here and there.
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| going, some might say have already gone,
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| | Take some large flagons, at least 5 or 10
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| the same way. Just look along any
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| | litre capacity because some of those
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| supermarket shelf and you will see rows
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| | smaller places sell only to the locals
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| of Cabinet Sauvignon, Cabernet Merlot,
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| | who bring there own containers.The joy of
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| Chardonay etc., coming from the USA,
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| | finding a great little French wine from a
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| Australia, Chile, Roumania, et al., and a
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| | farm house tucked away out of sight,
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| couple of the most well known areas such
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| | talking to 'Le Patron' about how it was
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| as Bordeaux, Rioja, Frascati, Chianti,
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| | made, what the year had been like etc is
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| Etc..Even the large off-licence chains
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| | one of the best you can get.Ian Richards
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| are playing the same game because they
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| | webmaster of yourpower2be.com, on line
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| are staffed by low paid workers whose
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| | webzine . You will find beauty tips,
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| knowledge of wine is woefully thin.The
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| | health information, familly budget and
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| only place to go is to specialist wine
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| | finance, shopping to die for, make up,
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| shops but the trouble there is that they
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| | holidays and travel, recipes, information
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| will be concentrating on the pricier end
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| | on pets and gardening, weddings, and a
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| of the market, that said, they may have
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| | whole lot more.
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| some interesting wine that won't break
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