But the Europeans are being “nasty”. It’s an expression rarely used outside the circles of (a) the President of the Inited States (b) 10 year olds who didn’t get in invited to a party.
Don’t his resort hotels sell these? All his rich friends will be hit in the pockets with this one. I don’t really care. I will be sipping Crown Royal when I do drank. Purple Bag Bay bay.
I love that no one (except spineless Keith in the UK) is backing down to him and he's just digging deeper and deeper. He's been in office 2 months and the words Trumpcession and Trumpflation are already being widely used
Who could know that ruling by tantrum was unsustainable?
If you live in the US and don't travel this may come as a surprise, but the fact of the matter is the Europeans mostly don't even send their really good stuff anyway.
Do all these people (Trump and the rest of the countries' admin) pretend to not know that increasing the price of imported goods bounces and then increases the price of local ones?
Portugal will have to sell its wine, sparkling wine, champagne, liqueur, gin and beer to Canada, Brazil, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, the Nordic countries and the Baltics.
So Prohibition is back? People are going to start smuggling all sorts of shit into the US if any of these tariffs last longer than Trump's 72 hour attention span.
Trump will soon discover that tariffs are not very effective against a world-wide boycott of U.S. products, services and travel. He’ll find himself playing economic solitaire.
The asshole started this economic war, WWIII, then tries to act as if he didn’t/as if he’s the victim of tariff-bullying & is righteously defending himself. It’s just like Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. Can’t rewrite facts. We are witnesses.
We know you’re not all Maga’s. Just hope his following wakes up before it’s too late. Not only for you guys but the rest of the world. Love from Denmark
Thank you, Mia. I'm elderly, so can't really get in the trenches, but someone has got to. I'm urging them to, but no one seems to be taking up the banner. With what he's doing to universities, perhaps students will rise up.
Curious though, if the US purchased 25% EU wine and champagne due to a tariff, how big of hit would that be to the EU? What value/percent of their annual sales are to the US?
Trump wants to be like President William McKinley. The @GOP was in bed with rich industrialists. After consolidating power, McKinley helped define the GOP for the next few years.
But Trump overlooks/doesn’t know the fact that there was a terrible recession in 1893 during McKinley’s term.
Oh yeah. Then let's cut the export totally to the US. And put the 200% tariff on all US wines. I'd like to understand where orange colored dork gets these percentages in the first place.
He must be taking it out on the EU. Some Canadian provinces have removed American alcohol from their shelves. The owner of Jack Daniels told investors that Canada accounts for only 1% of the company's sales. At this stage, Trump is only attacking Canadian steel and aluminum.
He completely fucked up Ukraine's defence in one day, in an attempt to make a buck for himself, so now he's stuck at having to get outrageous on his antisocial media to make people talk about other things.
America, you do know you have a 25th amendment, right?
The English also like Portuguese wine, and I have no doubt that the Irish, the Danes, the Canadians, the Mexicans and the Icelanders will drink it and cry for more when they try it. It is a good business opportunity for Portugal.
Nice. Now with Trump's tariffs on European wines, it's not a problem for us because we don't buy, now the problem is that we need to sell, but it will be an opportunity for us to discover new markets.
Trump is proving again that he is not a trustworthy partner.
Some US partners start to realize that strategic decisions should take that in consideration.
Bravo to Portugal that cancels a deal to buy F35's.
Stop with F35's, the American cloud services and Satelite communication systems, etc.
Stop listening to Trump. He takes both sides of every issue and is obviously not actually in charge of anything. He's Peter Thiel et al's mentally declining meat puppet. Nothing more or less. "Tesler" FTW!
Come and discover the best wines in Portugal in the following regions, you won't regret it: Minho, Douro, Dão, Bairrada, Ribatejo, Alentejo, Palmela - Setúbal and Madeira.
It's good to read this, the English tend to come to Porto and the Douro Valley a lot because of visiting the Porto wineries and the other wines that the Douro region offers us.
I really don’t think the EU gives a damn. They’re rallying around each other because of the insanity across the pond.
They cannot waiver because of the orange clown’s tantrums.
Just like in Canada. We don’t buy American swill anymore and we have discovered our beer and wine was always better anyway. Keep your alcohol, we don’t want it anymore.
The Portuguese drink what is theirs, we have excellent wines from Minho, the Douro Valley, Alentejo, Bairrada, Dão, the Setúbal Peninsula and Madeira. Then we have other drinks and beers. Whoever wants to buy us, already knows.
Yeah. There's the difference. The US and Aus do quite a lot of mass-produced wine. Yellowtail - ugh. I'm sure there are US versions of this. Spain also does *some* mass-produced wine. But mostly it's small producer stuff. And some of that is fricking sensational and stupidly cheap.
My local Barcelona wine bar - which has been there for 33 years - stocks some awful Australian wine. Because apparently British tourists demand it. WTAF? Anyway. No US wine (despite so many US tourists)...obviously fewer of those going forward
The point is all that European wine (Priorat DOQ, for instance) that has the US market as one of the main, or the main, customers. Go to Gratallops and ask where a big part of bottles are going every year.
I see it more as (small) winemakers who import from here, and who have based their incomes in an import model, not being able to sell so many bottles for 3x the usual price, thus affecting their subsistence both as persons and as sustainers of winemaking traditions.
Oh. And Spanish wine - for reasons I cannot understand - is vastly underrated. The best Priorat I have tasted is insanely better than the only first-growth Bordeaux I have ever tried. I mean it is still expensive, but nowhere near those 1st crus...
Spanish and Catalan wines, and cheeses are amazing. We just have, historically, less publicity or image than French ones - same for food vs. Italian for instance. Maybe we are just bad at selling ourselves 😅
Yeah. You're right. Funnily enough, one of my best friends family were exporting Priorat wine to the UK and the US (before phylloxera). Weirdly, this may make good Priorat more accessible to Catalans...and me 😜
Yeah. there's a bizarre thing going on in Australia, where they make some pretty sensational wines. But restaurants serve wines from around the world...(hint: profits. It's easy to sell wines people don't know at higher prices...)
Hey. When you can sell Aus wines in a restaurant for $100 (seems to be the standard for a decent bottle RN) I don't know why they need the European bottles. .Other than more mark-up. Funnily enough, in Barcelona my local friends baulk at a bottle over €30...in a restaurant!
I'm not that picky of a wine drinker, most things make me happy. But the idea that American sparkling wine is anywhere comparable to Champagne is laughable
Dammit, no more (real) champagne? American wine stores make good profit selling European wines, so tariffs will hurt us, too. Costco sells French champagne under their Kirkland label (yes, it is produced & bottled in France). trump too stupid to see downstream harm to US consumers & merchants.
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Who could know that ruling by tantrum was unsustainable?
Californian producers will be pleased!
Ah, but Champagne! It won't be the same. Customers will have to go to Canada for the real thing...
And then: it wouldn’t change a thing. The US are still a state on its way to dictatorship
End of the problem before it started
There's not that much European wine, not enough for everyone anyway.
I'm sure there are more than enough countries also willing to make a trade.
The good wine stays in Europe and the garage products go down the drain.
That would improve the market here.
Is 200% enough?
What US Champagne Business would this be? 🤔
But Trump overlooks/doesn’t know the fact that there was a terrible recession in 1893 during McKinley’s term.
500% Tariffs on EVERYTHING
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PS: Mexico, you and your tequila are still welcome though 😉✊🏻
The “Shutthefuckup” tax
America, you do know you have a 25th amendment, right?
“Well, I think I’ve always said, you know, to me, stock market is very — all of it, you know, all of it together, it’s very important.” 🤣🤨🤦♂️
Some US partners start to realize that strategic decisions should take that in consideration.
Bravo to Portugal that cancels a deal to buy F35's.
Stop with F35's, the American cloud services and Satelite communication systems, etc.
We drink it by ourselves while US can drink their Californian Zinfandel. Cheers!
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They cannot waiver because of the orange clown’s tantrums.
Something must be done. I no longer care what.