Ontario Fruit Explorers

["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Joe,

Being from the States, wine is cheap, taxes are expensive.

We could buy gallon jugs of "table wine" in New Hampshire for a few  
dollars.  I particularly liked the Ernest & Julio Gallo jugs.  They were  
also selling inexpensive box wines 20 years ago.

When I came to Ontario I started making wine.  Taxes made it too expensive  
to buy.

Later,
Tom


On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:21:34 -0500, Joe Boles <jo.bo@rogers.com> wrote:

> If you're a wine connoisseur, you'll love this! .  Wal-Mart announced on  
> June 8th, 2006, that it will begin offering customers a new discount  
> item, Wal-Mart's own brand of wine. The world's largest retail chain is  
> teaming up with Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery of California, to produce  
> the spirits at an affordable price, in the $1-$3 range.
>
> Wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to put a bottle of the Wal-Mart  
> brand into their shopping carts, but "there is a market for inexpensive  
> wine,"said Kathy Micken, professor of marketing at University of  
> Arkansas, Fayetteville. A spokesman for Gallo said the company has long  
> searched for an avenue for properly marketing its less well known  
> products. Micken said, "The right name is important." Customer surveys  
> were conducted by Wal-Mart to determine the most attractive name for the  
> Wal-Mart wine brand. The top surveyed names in order of popularity were:
>
>   10. Chateau Traileur Parc
>
>   9. White Trashfindel
>
>   8. Big Red Gulp
>
>   7. World Championship Riesling
>
>   6. NAS CARbernet
>
>   5. Chef Boyardeaux
>
>   4. Peanut Noir
>
>   3. I Can't Believe its Not Vinegar!
>
>   2. Grape Expectations
>
>   1. Nasti Spumante
>
>   The beauty of the Wal-Mart brand of wine, she said, is that it can be  
> served with either white meat (Possum) or red meat (Squirrel); or it can  
> be mixed with beer.



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