Hip, hip, hooray!
Hip, hip, hooray!
Hip, hip, hooray!
I guess my blog will now be targeted as anti-semitic if it isn't already, even though that has nothing to do with the cheer.
Before raising may glass I would like to thank the three above for the indefatigable efforts on behalf of truth and humanity and for providing rays of spiritual light amidst the diabolical madness of the times in which we live. I must confess it is greatly needed and much appreciated.
And with that....
"Canada’s Napa Valley seeks elusive audience: Canadian wine drinkers" by Dan Bilefsky New York Times, September 20, 2020
OSOYOOS, British Columbia — The first surprise for Séverine Pinte, a French winemaker working in Canada, was how casual everyone was — more ripped jeans and flip-flops than Chanel.
Then there was the unexpected need to warn grape pickers not to smoke marijuana near her beloved vines, and finally there was a furry menace: Canadian black bears with a taste for chardonnay that gobbled up rows of grape clusters, forcing winemakers to employ hunters, electrified fences or pepper bombs.
When Pinte emigrated to Okanagan Valley in British Columbia a decade ago, she experienced some culture shock, as she transitioned from the formality of Bordeaux’s centuries-old wine industry to Canada’s more laid-back style, “but I am never going back to France,” said Pinte, the chief winemaker at Le Vieux Pin winery in British Columbia’s pristinely beautiful winemaking region. “The soil here is a palette from which I can make art.”
Oh, the home of the mighty Greencrow, who does indeed fly higher than most!
Canadian gastronomy may be better known for poutine, gravy-drenched cheese fries, than for pinot noir, but a new generation of winemakers is putting the Okanagan Valley on the global wine map, alongside famed regions like Bordeaux, Tuscany, and Napa Valley.
Still, winemakers like Pinte say they face a business hurdle more daunting than grape-guzzling bears: Many Canadians outside the province can’t legally get their hands on their wine.
About 90% of all British Columbia wine is sold within the province, a statistic driven by ardent local wine consumption, legal restrictions and regional rivalries within Canada.
Booze was largely banned in Canada during World War I, and some provinces still forbid individual consumers from ordering shipments of wine produced in other provinces. That has proved especially galling to winemakers when people are nursing pandemic blues with oversized glasses of chardonnay.
“It’s easier to send wine to China,” Pinte said.
Some years ago a British Columbia winemaker successfully mail-ordered a gun from another province in a stunt aimed at showing she could acquire a shotgun from Saskatchewan with greater ease than she could order a case of syrah.
While this struggle to sell to a nationwide audience has long been a point of frustration for British Columbia winemakers, it has become even more exasperating as the quality of the province’s wine has markedly improved.
I stopped reading
In the 1980s, the Okanagan Valley, which extends about 125 miles north from the border with Washington state, was known for its apple and peach orchards, bargain lakeside beach vacations and wine dismissed by oenophiles as undrinkable plonk, but the phasing out of government price protections brought an influx of cheaper foreign wines, forcing local winemakers to raise their game and plant better-quality vines.
Three decades later, the region has drawn Canadian billionaires, who have joined veteran vintners like Anthony von Mandl, owner of Mission Hill Winery, as well as Chinese investors and U.S. tech entrepreneurs eager to create a Napa Valley of the north.
Related:
That would seem to point towards an unnatural phenomena, perhaps arson but more like directed energy weapons as we are now told the California wildfires are likely to grow from wind and low humidity as the South is getting rained dumped on it again.
Today, the region produces fine pinot noirs and cabernet francs that are gaining notice by in-the-know wine snobs from New York to Shanghai. Some $40 bottles of Okanagan cabernet sauvignon have sold for nearly $1,000 in China, but consumers in Quebec and Ontario — two of Canada’s biggest wine markets — tend to favor European imports, while some connoisseurs remain incredulous that the country can produce gasp-worthy wine, and it is hard to create a national wine brand in a regionally divided country, where upmarket Montreal restaurants favor French vintages and Ottawa retailers champion Ontario-made wine.....
That is where the print story ended, and what was most notable about the article was the cork the New York Times stuck in the COVID-19 bottle.
There must be no COVID in CANADA -- or THAILAND, either (looks like another color coup since Thailand is either not going along or dragging its heels on the NWO project).
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Honestly, I'm sick of swilling insulting eliti$m coming from the pre$$ and post it just so you can see what is being poured here.
Now for the killer whale in the water:
John Kerry takes the climate change fight to Wall Street
The globali$t hypocrite and member of the shadow government is going to do that after being the most-traveled U.S. Secretary of State in the country's history.
So what is the carbon pricing on the gaseous spew that comes out of his mouth anyway?
Time to go fishing and see what it attracts.
UPDATE:
Yesterday's Sunday Globe also contained ads for BP on the top half of page A6 and the bottom half of page A7 that read like this:
"Time to curb carbon, and drive the economy" regarding their "Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) that puts a price on carbon across the transportation sector . It will cut emissions and improve transportation infrastructure, creating jobs, economic growth and generating revenue Masschusetts needs more now than ever. Get to know the policy that protect the economy and environment at the same time."
MA Can create jobs right now, Massachusetts needs to emit less carbon. The state also needs to protect its economy. That's why the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) makes so much sense. Estimates show that initiative will fund improvements in infrastructure, adding jobs and increasing GDP across the region -- all white cutting emissions. That's a win-win Massachusetts could use right now. See why businesses look ours support it" web site.
Even the oil and gas industries took a bite of the poi$oned apple that is the Great Re$et, and as the leaves begin to fall the rest of us will be left behind.
