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World faces global wine shortage

  • 30-10-2013 7:35pm
    #1
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24746539

    :eek:

    This is horrible horrible news!!!

    Something must be done, I think to start with we need to outlaw almond and olive growing and swap all of them for grapes, anything else that grows where grapes could grow should be outlawed.

    OMG OMG OMG

    Better start stock piling


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  • #2
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    wexie wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24746539

    :eek:

    This is horrible horrible news!!!

    Something must be done, I think to start with we need to outlaw almond and olive growing and swap all of them for grapes, anything else that grows where grapes could grow should be outlawed.

    OMG OMG OMG

    Better start stock piling

    This news will only worry women and sissy's tbh.


  • #3
    The Big Smoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭The Big Smoke


    Quit your wining...

    *dodges rocks*


  • #4
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    About time adults stopping drinking that fruit juice shite anyway.


  • #5
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    wazky wrote: »
    About time adults stopping drinking that fruit juice shite anyway.

    There's nothing I enjoy more than relaxing with a nice Merlot :)


  • #6
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    500g red grapes 59c @ Aldi
    According to sources, it takes 1.2kg of grapes to make a bottle of wine. Now go!


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  • #7
    canadianwoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman


    Banjo String wrote: »
    This news will only worry women and sissy's tbh.

    Not this woman. I hate wine.


  • #8
    Gamayun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭Gamayun


    Que syrah syrah :)


  • #9
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    There's nothing I enjoy more than relaxing with a nice Merlot :)

    Its really just an alcoholic fruit juice though?


  • #10
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    canadianwoman wrote: »
    Not this woman. I hate wine.

    What's your poison?


  • #11
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Quick, somebody text Jesus.


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  • #12
    canadianwoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman


    Banjo String wrote: »
    What's your poison?

    Any good whiskey will do. :)


  • #13
    Terry1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Terry1985


    Banjo String wrote: »
    This news will only worry women and sissy's tbh.

    Beer is 4% usual crap like Heineken, bud
    Good Belgian beer is 5.5%

    Wine is 9-13.5% typically.

    Who is the sissy now?


  • #14
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    wazky wrote: »
    Its really just an alcoholic fruit juice though?

    So whats the problem?


  • #15
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Banjo String wrote: »
    This news will only worry women and sissy's tbh.

    And men that manage to keep their knuckles off the floor.


  • #16
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    So whats the problem?

    I see your point, just never liked it to be honest.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Terry1985 wrote: »
    Beer is 4% usual crap like Heineken, bud

    I'm not your bud, pal


  • #18
    Terry1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Terry1985


    wazky wrote: »
    Its really just an alcoholic fruit juice though?

    Beer is a yeast infection excrement, what's your point?


  • #19
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Quick put a drinking wine while wine shortage tax on it say 1€ a bottle ?


  • #20
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Terry1985 wrote: »
    Beer is a yeast infection excrement, what's your point?

    You drink beer from the furry cup?


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I frickin love wine. LOVE it. I wouldn't like to live in a world without a regular glass of red.


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  • #22
    JOSman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭JOSman


    Terry1985 wrote: »
    Beer is 4% usual crap like Heineken, bud
    Good Belgian beer is 5.5%

    Wine is 9-13.5% typically.

    Who is the sissy now?


    Gimme six pints of that wine stuff!:D


  • #23
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm not your bud, pal

    I'm not your pal, friend.


  • #24
    canadianwoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman


    Archeron wrote: »
    I'm not your pal, friend.

    Surely, you two can get along?


  • #25
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,268 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm not your bud, pal
    Archeron wrote: »
    I'm not your pal, friend.

    Uh oh, here we go.


  • #26
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Pouilly Fumé and a punnet of strawberries in a garden on a summer evening - best thing I've had this year.

    I'd hate for the wine to run out. Didn't Jesus have a trick for sorting that out? :)


  • #27
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    wexie wrote: »
    And men that manage to keep their knuckles off the floor.
    Terry1985 wrote: »
    Beer is 4% usual crap like Heineken, bud
    Good Belgian beer is 5.5%

    Wine is 9-13.5% typically.

    Who is the sissy now?

    Whiskey is 40%.

    Your move twinkle toes.


  • #28
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Whiskey is 40%.

    Your move twinkle toes.

    Absinthe is 80+?


  • #29
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Whiskey is 40%.

    Your move twinkle toes.
    wazky wrote: »
    Absinthe is 80+?

    Green dragon will put you on your arse.


  • #30
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    wazky wrote: »
    Absinthe is 80+?

    Absinthe makeths the heart grow fonder?


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  • #31
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    mikom wrote: »
    Green dragon will put you on your arse.

    I know a dude. ;)


  • #32
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Absinthe makeths the heart grow fonder?

    And your arse tremble.


  • #33
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Whiskey is 40%.

    Your move twinkle toes.

    Guess you never tried cask strenght...

    pussy


  • #34
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,665 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Yay. That means more price increases. Pretty soon it'll be a minimum of 15 quid to get a bottle of wine that won't double as a drain cleaner.
    :mad:


  • #35
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    wexie wrote: »
    Guess you never tried cask strenght...

    pussy

    Tried it. Didn't like it.

    Partial to the odd Poteen though. Usually drink it by an open fire, which I Stoke from time to time with my cock.


  • #36
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    Yay. That means more price increases. Pretty soon it'll be a minimum of 15 quid to get a bottle of wine that won't double as a drain cleaner.
    :mad:

    http://celticlinkferries.com/

    I know a guy with a van :D


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  • #37
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Tried it. Didn't like it.

    Partial to the odd Poteen though. Usually drink it by an open fire, which I Stoke from time to time with my cock.

    dammit Banjo, you made me spit my Château Margaux 1975 all over the screen! :mad:


  • #38
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,665 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    wexie wrote: »
    http://celticlinkferries.com/

    I know a guy with a van :D

    Me too. ME.
    It's a bit of a trek from here though.


  • #39
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    Me too. ME.
    It's a bit of a trek from here though.

    Meh...overnight there, few hours in the morning, overnight back....

    Maybe we could organise a group deal for boardsies, just rent the whole boat.


  • #40
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    What about the big wine lakes with the big wine fishes what do be swimming in them? In all and anyways?


  • #41
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    What little chance I have of getting 'the sex' currently will be extinguished in front of me as all the lovely ladies won't get drunk any more and will see me for the dull and grotesque creature that I am. :(

    FUCK!!!


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  • #42
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    What little chance I have of getting 'the sex' currently will be extinguished in front of me as all the lovely ladies won't get drunk any more and will see me for the dull and grotesque creature that I am. :(

    FUCK!!!

    Cheer up buddy, there's always WKD, Wescoast coolers and GHB


  • #43
    Savoir.Faire
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 326 ✭✭Savoir.Faire


    This story has troubled me greatly. In fact, I had to pour myself a very large glass of nero d'avola to come to terms with the shock of reading such potentially troubling news.

    I'm sure some of the new world producers will continue to knock out bottles of uncouth rocket fuel for the masses, but there will always be a place for a more subtle and refined bottle of wine from France, and to a lesser extent, Italy.


  • #44
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    wexie wrote: »
    Cheer up buddy, there's always WKD, Wescoast coolers and GHB

    High octane pop


  • #45
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    snubbleste wrote: »
    500g red grapes 59c @ Aldi
    According to sources, it takes 1.2kg of grapes to make a bottle of wine. Now go!

    Yeah I seen those grapes on Saturday.

    Only 1.2Kg required for a bottle? Seems not much


  • #46
    GobBass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭GobBass


    This thread reminded me of one of my favorite films of all time, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, where the Italians hide the good wine from the occupying Germans during WWII and gave them local piddle. I imagine if this were to happen, you can guarantee the vineyard owners internationally would have the same policy. :D


  • #47
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Terry1985 wrote: »
    Beer is 4% usual crap like Heineken, bud
    Good Belgian beer is 5.5%

    Wine is 9-13.5% typically.

    Who is the sissy now?
    Banjo String wrote: »
    Whiskey is 40%.

    Your move twinkle toes.
    wazky wrote: »
    Absinthe is 80+?

    Greetings from the land of moonshine and Everclear.

    95% ABV. Do I win?


  • #48
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    MadsL wrote: »
    Greetings from the land of moonshine and Everclear.

    95% ABV. Do I win?

    Absolute ethanol. >99% For use in industry.

    Yes, I've tasted it.:)


  • #49
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    Absolute ethanol. >99% For use in industry.

    Yes, I've tasted it.:)

    I concede. Although I'm willing to bet Apple Pie Moonshine is a damn sight tastier.


  • #50
    [-0-]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    A good bottle of wine really makes a meal. I'm not worried about the wine shortage at all. I live near hundreds of wineries and they stock pile the stuff every year.


  • #51
    salacious crumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    wexie wrote: »
    And men that manage to keep their knuckles off the floor.


    And have actually grown pubic hair.


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