Is it possible that repeatedly threatening to invade someone’s country will make them stop funding your military?
Big if true.
US exports of wine to Canada was only $54mil at its maximum? That seems low.
How many wine making regions does the US even have? California and maybe new York is all I see on the East coast.
Most of their domestic wine production is probably consumed domestically.
Sadly I can’t take any credit for this drop, since I haven’t bought a bottle of US wine in at least a decade.
Bourbon and a few other things (Aviation Gin) have been bought in the past and now are off my list, but that’s a different graph altogether.
Interesting aside: Here in Alberta, our fuckwit premier has announced that the province will be buying from the US again. Since I never saw a shortage of US product in the local stores, I have to wonder if she just paused it long enough to wind down the current stocks in the ALCB warehouses.
Unfortunately the vast majority of wine produced in the United States is in California, followed by New York, Washington, and Oregon, all very blue states (source). Granted the farmers themselves are likely Republicans (as most rural folks are), but this still isn’t quite the “punish the US” effect like boycotting, say, American whiskey (primarily produced in Kentucky, Tennessee, and a variety of other mostly red states) would be.
But arguably, it’s not really about punishing the US - our economy is too small to really accomplish that.
It’s about divesting ourselves of their influence. It’s about turning our back on them and living with the rest of the world instead. And wherever possible, it’s about making and buying our own products first.
I support this regardless of the US administration and I’m American. I think everybody should try to shop small and local wherever they are. I’ll always prefer to put my money into the local economy when and where I’m able.
I’m European and this is how I feel about it as well. I try to turn my boycott into something positive. Now I support my local economy more and I’ve turned away from big tech to more ethical FOSS as much as I could.
Looking at the graph I thought it was going to be one of those 60M - 50M on the Y axis. Nope bottom is 0. That’s an insane drop
Same here. That’s crazy!
Americans have no idea how good they had it under Biden. But they will know how awful things will be under Trump.
Keep it up, guys.
Don’t worry we’re gonna blame Biden anyway
And his son! /s
… you didn’t need that “/s”
BC here. We’ve stopped buying American wine though that wasn’t a common occurrence anyway. Now we’re buying primarily BC wines, with some imported from countries that aren’t America.
Great 👍
BC has some amazing wines!
I bet the only remaining sales are in Saskatchewan and Alberta who have governments who have said fuck it.
Keeping that elbow up with the fantastic Canadian wines and beers we have.
I live in Niagara and I’ll be the first to say that vqa wines are not all that.
But I’d rather get a vqa, or other Canadian wine, over supporting the USA and their tariffs.
They’re certainly not bad, but they’re also not “all that” either. I’ll happily keep buying Canadian. I’ll probably keep that up after the tariffs because I like supporting our economy, instead of sending all my dollars over to the USA for the same thing we can make here.
I mean, we have the option to buy the table wine from a Canadian winery and an occasional fancy bottle from somewhere in Europe. Keep it up!
Best wine I have ever had was decades ago, it was called Unity Wine. It was a joint venture between a BC Oganagan wine producer and a Niagara producer, where they blended their products. Here is one blend. https://www.cellartracker.com/m/wines/107991
They are different beasts. BC has a less ideal climate and slightly shorter season. Your beer is great while your wines are less reliable at this point. Climate change will alter this but right now this is the case.
Portugal has the best QPR in wine IMO
Source: 30 years in the alcohol business.
The thing about buying Portugese (or other nationality) wines is it still boycotts America.
Yes, and you will get a solid bottle for less than buying a US wine.
Make it drop to zero alongside our tourism. Make Americans pay for not opposing fascists sooner when they had a better chance.
Hard to get to zero while Danielle Smith and the Albertan Assholes sell us out any chance they get to lick trumps boots and make a quick buck. (She returned US booze to shelves in AB after what, 12 days lol. shocking /s)
hopefully enough people realize that and pay attention to what they are buying
I sincerely hope so too, but that never seems to be enough without people being forced to take a stand via gov’t policy. And our gov’t caves to Trump at every opportunity (also looking at you Big Tech Tax that Carney, and EU folded on Canada Day, happy Canada Day everyone /s).
My good friend who is very well off and supposedly “boycotting the States” bought US cherries over BC cherries (one of BC’s BEST products) the other day, and was surprised when I declined any, because I am actually boycotting the States. All it took was “Because they were on sale, the BC ones weren’t.” This is someone who makes over $100k/year by themselves, are DINK, and the price difference of $1.00/lb was enough to make them forget the boycott and go right back to buying US goods over prime, in-season BC goods, as long as they are on the shelf available.
And this is Alberta we’re talking about with the booze. 30% of the population wants to secede (actual figure as of yesterday) and form little AmeriKKKa on the prairie and the other 70% (hyperbole) wants to stay in Canada but still hates LGBTQ people and the environment thanks to years of rightwing brainwashing and undermining the education system in AB. I literally CANNOT talk to family members in AB anymore it has gotten so bad, they are so brainwashed. Like that side of the family does not exist anymore.
Danielle Smith is pushing another secession referendum right now! One of the ONLY Canadian politicians who went to Mar-A-Lago to swear fealty to Trump before he was sworn in lol. She should be charged with fucking treason and hung.
If anything, I’d bet >50% of Albertans would rather choose US over Canadian wines a lot of the time, since Canadian wines primarily come from BC, Ontario, and Québec, all of whom they hate because sadly, they are too stupid (by design with the rampant education undermining) to understand how the Equalization system works, (or the pension system, or literally *insert any other gov’t program here *).
Yes, stupid trumponians don’t understand that some things are extremely easy to substitute. Alcohol is one of such things.
Fabulous.
More!
Murican here. France and Italy have much better wines anyway, and they’re still much better than California wines even if they cost twice as much. Wished we could get BC wines here in Washington state.
Maybe we keep the good stuff in California, but in my wine drinking experience so far, French and Italian wines aren’t noticeably better. In fact, all the best wines I’ve had have been Californian, but that could be because I got it at the winery itself.
Less demand for California wines means they’re cheaper for me, that’s not a bad thing in my book.
Stick it to us Canada, we sure fucking deserve it.
