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California’s wine supply drops 24% in lowest haul in 30 years Source: CBS News
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How do you pronounce it? Odd? Ode? Some other way?
My last name is pronounced exactly like cyber FWIW
[online sources say it’s pronounced odd but slightly longer / rounder O sound]
That sounds about right.
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I had a friend in college named Odd-Even “Jones” (leaving off his Norwegian surname to preserve the innocent).
Seemed kind of funny to us Americans, until we realized it was pretty normal.
(classic WB threadrift, amiright?)
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Yeah it’s not a tariff on wine & liquor, rather it’s a ban on sales.
Even is pretty normal here, but the combination is unusual and shows parents with a sense of humor.
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Going with the thread drift, I had a Dutch teammate in college named Joost de Kock. He wisely just rolled and laughed with all the inevitable jokes and nicknames.
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Love a good thread drift…
I was also business friends with a guy in New Hampshire named Dick Swett. He became a US Congressman. (and went by Dick).
Even better… His freshman year in college, the the housing office pared him with Timber Dick.
They became best friends.
(He died in a car crash in colorado in April, 2008, if anyone wants to fact check any of this.)
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I know I’m late to the party here, but the biggest issue with canceled Canadian orders is that all of the bottles going to Canada need to have special labels. So those are labels that are either added at bottling, or labels added at the warehouse prior to shipment. Each province has slightly different rules, but the additional labels might have special barcodes (Quebec) that make the wines unsellable elsewhere. The labels added on are also generally the cheapest black text on white and unattractive to the average consumer buying a bottle of wine from Lodi.
So yes, $3 million isn’t a huge amount, but those wines aren’t necessarily going to be able to be sold given the amount of labor and expense involved in getting them relabeled for the American market.
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Yeah, I know a guy from Lodi who markets some of this area’s wines in Canada. He was up there this week. Fruitless trip. Only making bad things worse around Lodi.
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