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Lest we forget that wine is a business … a very BIG business …

By Uncorked | Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 02:10 PM

Call me naive — even at a now suddenly ripe old age — but I find this story kind of depressing … and not just because some business conglomerate lost a bit of money. It’s called “Foster’s Has First Loss in 16 Years on Wine Writeoff”, by Bloomberg.com.

Read it to the end, I dare you.

Is there any mention anywhere about the magic, the romance, the life-affirming alchemy that simple fermented grape juice can provide to human beings?

Nary a word.

(Sigh …)

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