"Paul M. Cook"
Cucumber salad advice summaryWell, what I ended up with was WAY too tangy! --- Andy's 1st Cucumber and Onion salad. 2 English cucumbers sliced paper thin 1 medium red onion sliced into paper thin...
There is lots of crappy French wine on the market. They sell a lot of their plonk overseas because they have relied on a good name for wines for so long that people who know nothing about wines think they are getting a good wine because it is French and it is overpriced. I have had some very nice French wines so I am not going to dismiss them out of hand. There are a lot of other regions in the world that are starting to produce some good wines, and there is no reason they can't. There are lots of places with similar weather and soil conditions. For that matter, there are things that can be added to the soil to produce similar effects. People from the European wine regions have relocated around the world. Here in the Niagara region we have a climate similar to the Champagne region of France and can grow the same grapes. We have a flourishing wine business with vitners from France, Germany, Italy, Australia. You may never get to taste the good stuff them make because most of it is sold locally. The one hot export item is ice wine, a little too sweet for my taste, but people pay a lot of money for that stuff.
