Wine Spectator magazine (May 31 issue) conducted a poll of its readers, and discovered that 31% of readers were boycotting French wine, and 25% were boycotting German wine. Five percent were boycotting American wine. Wine Spectator readers are, by definition, serious oenophiles, so the fact that nearly a third of Americanโs most-committed wine drinkers have decided to โjust say nonโ helps explains the significant drop in French wine imports in recent weeks. Thatโs good news for Coalition wine countries (such as Australia) and for winemakers in countries such as Chile, Argentina, and Hungary which were not active allies of the Saddam regime.

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David B. Kopel is the research director of the Independence Institute and an adjunct law professor at the University of Denver.
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