US exports of wine to Canada was only $54mil at its maximum? That seems low.
Is it possible that repeatedly threatening to invade someone’s country will make them stop funding your military?
Big if true.
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.
Wine is also so easy and cheap to make at home. The only reason to buy commercial wines is if you’re picky about the specific flavours. How many people do you know that are that picky? Pretty much everyone I know enjoys some wine on occasion and not a single one of them care about what kind of wine is served.
I’ve made beer at home, and it’s easily possible (with practice and determination) to make beer at the same quality as almost anything commercially produced.
Only once in 40 years have I tasted a homemade wine that would stand up to a good $10 bottle from the liquor store.
Fabulous.
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!
I bet the only remaining sales are in Saskatchewan and Alberta who have governments who have said fuck it.
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!
Does that mean that we only buy ~$40m of US wine per month? Or we did, before the stupidity.
I assumed the number would be much higher.
Nice, very nice.
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.
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”
Keeping that elbow up with the fantastic Canadian wines and beers we have.
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.
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.
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
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!
