Replies to post #4221 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[OakesCS]

i'll stand by my statement which in quite clear English says nothing about the history of wine or wine which you contend has become animated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wine_producing_countries (Georgia #34 and far behind those wine producing powerhouses of Brazil and Serbia) However, this list is in metric tonnes.

if you go to: http://faostat.fao.org/site/535/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=535#ancor
you can list out the xport value by country. Georgia exported about $32M of wine in 2009. Apparently, Brazilian wine is cheap because they only exported $10M in 2009. Those Danes must produce the really good stuff (dripping with sarcasm in case you havent noticed) because they exported $115M of wine in 2009. Of course, the French exported $7.7B but who was talking about economic significance.

in addition, just because Russia gets into the WTO doesn't mean they'll start consuming a lot of Georgian wine. Georgia's per capita consumption is higher than Russia's and if you do the math you'll see that they consume about 6x more than they produce.
http://www.wineinstitute.org/resources/worldstatistics/article44

who has to know much when you can just look it up? Of course, the difference is I do before I suggest people don't know what they're talking about. Back to you jim.