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2003-May-07 ![[this day]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/images/dailyLinkIcon.gif)
French wine sales down in USA
Americans are drinking more wine, and they're abandoning French wines.
Interesting.
Wine Spectator:
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For the four weeks ending March 23, 2003, total sales of French table wine in the United States dropped by 17.2 percent in case volume, and 19.4 percent in dollar value, compared to a year earlier. For the 52-week period ending March 23, sales were down 13.9 percent in volume and 13 percent in dollar value. ... overall sales of table wine from around the world were up 1.8 percent in volume during those four weeks and up 5.6 percent in volume for the 52-week period.
British honour vs French turpitude
The Spectator:
For years, the Americans were reluctant to share any intelligence with the British that might in turn be shared with the French through our common institutions, because they knew that the French would pass it on to potential enemies. If a story published last weekend is true, then the French were doing precisely that with the Iraqis. Indeed, several stories in the last few days have suggested that there was full-scale collusion between the French and Iraqi security services, in direct opposition to the interests of the majority of France's European partners. The Americans, meanwhile, have discovered evidence of widespread sanctions-busting by the French, confirming the notion that France's objections to a war were rooted in economic self-interest rather than in any form of higher principle. This philosophy was evident, too, in France's determination to allow the tyrant Robert Mugabe to attend an international summit on Africa in France earlier this year. One starts to suspect not just that the French have no ethical standards, but that they never enjoy parading their turpitude more than when those most offended are the English.