Why Is Virginia Winemaker Eric Trump Smiling?

[douglas9]

Is Trump hoping that his threatened new tax on French wine might benefit his son’s poorly-reviewed Trump Winery in the vineyards of Virginia?

No one inside the lush halls of the Miraval winery, co-owned by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with a French partner and located in Provence, wanted to answer that question this week. But the French receptionist who picked up the phone kept laughing. “C’est amusant,” she said.

What was so funny? The international catfight—call it the wine wars—between President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron that’s erupted over a new 3% tax to be levied on the revenues earned by big U.S. digital companies in France.

Trump was furious by France’s so-called GAFA high-tech tax and retaliated by threatening to impose tariffs on French wine, which he called inferior to the American brand.

Trump was furious—or at least he pretended to be—by the so-called GAFA (stands for Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple) tax and retaliated by threatening to impose tariffs on French wine which he called inferior to the American brand.

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Some suggested that Eric Trump’s vineyards in Charlottesville could benefit if the president slaps a tax on French wine. However, Trump Winery was savaged in a Vanity Fair review that described the wine taste as “Welch’s grape jelly with alcohol.”


https://www.dcreport.org/2019/08/08/why-is-virginia-winemaker-eric-trump-smiling/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. The first Wine of the Season

is about to be bottled and shipped world wide. Don't remember the name,but every case is sold our each year with thousands of cases flown into the States the night before release.

Welch's must be short on Grape Jelly so Eric can make more Wine.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Beaujolais Nouveau?

A much-celebrated wine. Like a Kardashian, nobody knows why such a wine is celebrated so highly, but there it is.

à votre santé

[Wellstone ruled]

8. French History.

It is the Law of France. How many Centuries has this been the rule? Watched the Ground Crews unloading Pallets of this stuff from NWA Air Freighters at the Humphrey Air Freight Terminal years ago and loading it into the local Beer and Wine Wholesaler's Trucks to be delivered by opening the next morning. One Wine and Liquor Store even had Midnight Special sale with tons of people waiting to buy one of the first bottles in the US.

[Brother Buzz]

2. California 'Front porch' wine smokes that Trump swill

[dalton99a]

3. Review:

[Danascot]

5. That's far more positive than I would have expected

and probably more than it deserves.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Virginia wines are coming along

but the US West Coast has got them beat, especially in the red varietals. I've been past the Trump winery in Virginia, it's on the way to Blenheim Vineyards, owned by Dave Matthews (yes, that Dave Matthews). They make some good wines at Blenheim, again, especially the whites.

Not sure why Eric Trump is having trouble with the same soils, microclimate, etc.

[blugbox]

6. Because Eric tRump's brain

Is a soiled microclimate.

[SMC22307]

11. I had no idea Dave Matthews owns Blenheim.

The things you learn on DU!

[customerserviceguy]

12. Yes, we were there

when they had a promotion that if you bought four bottles of wine, they'd give you a Dave Matthews Band album on CD.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. I still wouldn't buy his shitty wine

The west coast makes most of the wine in the U.S. and it's of good quality.

[Totally Tunsie]

10. There are enough decent domestic wines available that it's

hardly necessary to enrich another tRump wallet.

Try Drew Bledsoe's Doubleback collection for a nice surprise.
http://bledsoefamilywinery.com/index.html#ourstory

Use the tRump swill to christen rowboats.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Don't even make me say it.

Fucking loser son of a loser. Maybe. Or maybe not.

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Well, THAT's scary!

[GoneOffShore]

14. Wines in VA, PA, NY, etc, may approach CA and Old World wines in quality, but

they will never be able to compete in terms of value.

The operations are too small, and the tax structure in the US doesn't encourage small growers.