French winemakers get angry, pour 5 tankers of Spanish wine down the drain - Polidicks

[URL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/05/furious-french-wine-makers-hijack-spanish-tankers-pouring-90000/[/URL] [IMG]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/04/05/94594111winemakers-small_trans++eo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg[/IMG] [quote] Wine Makers in southern France have hijacked five tankers full of Spanish wine on the border, pouring the equivalent of 90,000 bottles of red and white down the drain in protest at “unfair competition”. Cheers erupted as around around 150 furious vintners from the Aude and Pyénées-Orientales departments unscrewed the cap on two tankers at Le Boulou, close to the Mediterranean town of Perpignan and less than ten miles from Spain, and emptied their contents onto the motorway on Monday. [/quote] Seems like they have some good reasons for it but it's still a pretty disproportionate response

"Good reasons?" You mean hearsay. What rubbish. They should all be arrested for destroying millions in dollars of property

[QUOTE]pouring the equivalent of 90,000 bottles of red and white down the drain[/QUOTE] :cry:

Didn't a load of French farmers destroy a fuckload of eggs a few years back to protest the dropping prices? They're making a habit of this. [editline]QUI QUI BAGUETTE![/editline] [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1316671&p=42573202&viewfull=1#post42573202"]FURIOUS FRENCH FARMERS[/URL]

Heh that's funny, around a month ago Spanish producers did the exact same thing to Portuguese milk trucks.

Arrest those cunts

[QUOTE]pouring the equivalent of 90,000 bottles of red and white down the drain in protest at “unfair competition”.[/QUOTE] Well that's a good few millions down the drain. What a waste.

Seems like if the local populace doesn't appreciate local wine that's just fair and no call to destroy shit. Can anyone from the region provide more context?

Fuckssake, what an insane waste of good Spanish wine. [QUOTE] Mr Rouanet made a name for himself in recent weeks after threatening to block at least one of the Tour de France race stages when the bike race organisers chose a Chilean wine as an official sponsor. Bicicleta, from Chile's Cono Sur company, will only be advertised at promotional events held when the race briefly enters Switzerland, Andorra and Spain, as under French law no alcohol brands can be promoted during sports events in the country. The prospect of the the stage between Carcassonne and Montpellier being blocked if the partnership with the New World winemaker goes ahead led to government assurances that local French produce would be given pride of place at stage starts and finishes. [/QUOTE] Boy, that will help their cause for sure. Like it wasn't annoying enough last year when striking French farmers blocked highways.

[quote=article]Many wine makers in the region feel that French wine does not receive enough protection on the home market, and are angry about what they see as a suspicious spike in imports from Spain and Italy, where lower social charges and less red tape enable producers to sell their goods more cheaply. They also claim that many Spanish producers are fraudulently mixing their wines with South American fare, some even slapping “Made in France” labels on the bottles. “If a French wine maker produced wine with Spanish rules, he simply wouldn’t be able to sell it,” said Frédéric Rouanet, the president of the Aude winemakers’ union. “Europe’s all very well, but with the same rules for all.”[/quote] Yeah that's some bad reasoning to ruin some peoples financial lives even though I can sorta see how it makes sense to them now; still a shitty way to go about it

It should be a crime to waste so much red wine.

Don't know about you guys from elsewhere, but wasting things by pouring them on the ground is a perfectly usual way of protesting in these parts. It happens a lot with milk, but wine is a new one to me. It's still fucking retarded though. From every single perspective.

At least when America did it, it was tea, not good alcohol

[QUOTE=article]Many wine makers in the region feel that French wine does not receive enough protection on the home market, and are angry about what they see as a suspicious spike in imports from Spain and Italy, where lower social charges and less red tape enable producers to sell their goods more cheaply. They also claim that many Spanish producers are fraudulently mixing their wines with South American fare, some even slapping “Made in France” labels on the bottles. “If a French wine maker produced wine with Spanish rules, he simply wouldn’t be able to sell it,” said Frédéric Rouanet, the president of the Aude winemakers’ union. “Europe’s all very well, but with the same rules for all.”[/QUOTE] Is funny because is the same thing we hear with our wine and the portuguese ones. And the olive oil being sent to Italy so it comes with "Made in Italy" labels. It keeps happening in a lot of products, especially with milk and vegetables, I wonder why. In fact, there are massive protests in Brussels each 3-4? months of farmers asking the EU to solve once for all this problem that affects the whole continent.

fuck off france

What a bunch of cunts

[QUOTE=ReligiousNutjob;50086489]Didn't a load of French farmers destroy a fuckload of eggs a few years back to protest the dropping prices? They're making a habit of this. [editline]QUI QUI BAGUETTE![/editline] [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1316671&p=42573202&viewfull=1#post42573202"]FURIOUS FRENCH FARMERS[/URL][/QUOTE] [URL="http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/french-anti-uber-protest-turns-to-guerrilla-warfare-as-cabbies-burn-cars-attack-uber-drivers/"]Or like when French taxi drivers started attacking Uber drivers, burning and dropping stuff on cars to protest against having competition.[/URL] Seems to be a trend.

The French don't fuck around, do they

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;50086608]At least when America did it, it was tea, not good alcohol[/QUOTE] Wine is hardly even alcohol. If it takes more than 3 bottles to start feeling it, and its not beer, its not worth the time it takes to drink it.

[QUOTE=Propane Addict;50086848]Wine is hardly even alcohol. If it takes more than 3 bottles to start feeling it, and its not beer, its not worth the time it takes to drink it.[/QUOTE] That's because it's meant for tasting not getting drunk on

This kind of nationalist, protectionist mindset among EU farmers needs to die already.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50086905]This kind of nationalist, protectionist mindset among EU farmers needs to die already.[/QUOTE] Most farmers around the world are like this. Except I suppose French farmers tend to use actions rather than just words.

Won't this fuck with the local acidity levels of the environment?

No! NO! THOSE MONSTERS!! NNNOOOOOOOO!! :cry:

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50086905]This kind of nationalist, protectionist mindset among EU farmers needs to die already.[/QUOTE] The EU needs to die already

i dont think good wine is transported in tankers

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;50086950]Won't this fuck with the local acidity levels of the environment?[/QUOTE] No? Compared to the amount necessary to seriously affect the environment this is a drop in a bucket. [editline]7th April 2016[/editline] Maybe the few dozen square feet that it saturated into the ground maybe damaged, but the "surrounding environment"? No

[QUOTE=Superkilll307;50086538]It should be a crime to waste so much red wine.[/QUOTE] it is, it's called property damage

Kinda a shit thing to do, someone paid full price for that wine. If you can't do competitive prices then it's not Spanish winemakers fault now is it.

[quote]They also claim that many Spanish producers are fraudulently mixing their wines with South American fare, some even slapping “Made in France” labels on the bottles. ... “These wines have no place in France. What’s more they’re not even necessarily European. I suspect they are from South America and then ‘Hispanicised' in Barcelona and then Europeanised, or even Frenchified in France."[/quote] This is actually a legitimate grievance of these winemakers if it's true-- not only for their part since this affects their industry, but it's also a legitimate grievance for French consumers as well who aren't actually getting what they paid for. If this situation is anything like what goes on here in the United States, then it probably is true or at least has some truth to it. Labeling loopholes in general shouldn't be tolerated, especially when it comes to food and beverages. It needs to be a simple matter of, "This is what we're selling, this is where it is from, this is how it was manufactured, and this is what you're spending your money on if you choose to buy it." Transparency is important in general (and should be coupled with rigorous standards), but it's especially important when it comes to consumables.