What’s Rarer Than an EV? California Wine?

Letter to Ephesians: Hard to swallow the latest news from California telling us “changing drinking habits, falling prices, tariffs and the weather are forcing winemakers to do the [once] unthinkable, i.e., rip up the vines …

The recent WSJ coverage summed up the disturbing tidings this way: “The U.S. wine industry hasn’t had it this bad since Prohibition.” While the “list of problems is long in California, the cradle of American wine,” the mounting obstacles to making the usual profits presumably applies to many winemakers in nearby Washington & Oregon, as well as in New York, Virginia & even Texas, Michigan, Pa & Ohio. If so, that means the nations “Vineyards have an oversupply” of the grapes they sowed. They can thank younger folks who now prefer coffee, tea, weed & fentanyl over wine. They can also thank their woke counterparts in progressive LA LA Land who rag relentlessly on “Trump’s Terrible Tariffs,” perhaps many not realizing the three “Ts” have nothing to do with the number of breasts Melania has been endowed with.

But get this. In climate end of times California, the WSJ suggests, “unusually good weather is adding to the glut … The temperature [has been] cool most of the year, without frost or heat, an environment that allows grapes to grow in abundance – & slowly develop the concentrated flavors that wine drinkers covet.” Ah, but those aficionados, have now “disappeared overnight” and going the way of the EV?

Davd Soul