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According to this NPR report, there is a worldwide wine surplus, and in Europe, angry vintners are destroying bottles of low-quality wine, presumably to defend their own brands. 

You know where else there is too much wine?  Television.  I am sick of travel programs spending so much time talking about wine.  In any given episode about a European country, the hosts of these programs will often dedicate a third of their air-time to yapping about wine.  They’ll ignore important museums, neglect to provide any meaningful historical context, mention significant attractions only in passing or dismiss the fine arts altogether.  But God forbid they don’t bore me with endless talk about wine.

Talk about wine all you want on the Food Network; give it its own channel for all I care.  But when you’re trotting the globe for a travel program, do me a favor and spend a little less time talking about booze and spend a little more time telling me how much hotels cost, how the public transportation is, and in what part of town I ought to stay.

Filed under: Current Events, Rantings, Television on July 5th, 2007