Wine Glut

I always read these articles about of wine gluts around the world.  What are they going to do with all this extra wine they have?  Might as well just distill it into Brandy… but… uh… won’t that make a Brandy glut?  Do people drink that much Brandy?  Is the Brandy used for something else that I don’t know about?  Do Molotov cocktail prices come down? 

Well I have a better idea, why not sell the grapes and or juice to independent bottlers who can then sell the wine from these appellations at a discount.  What I am thinking about is the model used for Scotch Whiskey, where and independent bottler buys a few whisky casks and stores them for a few years only to sell the whisky under their own name, but also referring to where the Whisky came from.  

Signatory is one of several companies that do this.  Port Ellen was a distillery on Islay that does not distill whisky anymore, but you can still buy Port Ellen through one of Signatory’s bottlings...  and while you are at it you can buy a Speyside, a Lowlands or a Campbelltown Whisky from Signatory.  So why not do this same thing in the wine world from some of the worlds famous wine regions.

There are wine negociants that already do this in one form or another, but they only cover one or two regions in a country.  Why not expand and have a Burgundy and a German Reisling and a New Zealand Sauv and an Oregon Pinot all under one company?  I know there would probably some legal ramifications in order to use the proper appellation from where the wine originates, but I am sure something could be thought up to get around that.

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