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Re:Is Wine Fake? by petre on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:39AM (#33702791)
Which directly reflects the quality of the wine drinking public. I like the French approach better: educate your customers' tastes. In Russia they also drink sweet wines because most people there view wine as a juice that one puts in their vodka. The rich substitute the wine with very expensive champagne.
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Re:Is Wine Fake? by 331c8c71 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:03AM (#33703634)
> drink sweet wines because most people there view wine as a juice that one puts in their vodka.

I haven't seen anyone mixing wine and vodka there, it's just not a thing.

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by vkazanov on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:58AM (#33704007)
Hm.

Russia and Balkans and the austro-hungarian region preferring sweeter wines is a centuries old culture and a wine making tradition. The same goes for Georgian wines.

Vodka with wine... is that even a joke?

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by dontlaugh on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:47AM (#33704320)
Maybe they're referring to fortified wine, which is made in parts of Eastern Europe?
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Re:Is Wine Fake? by vkazanov on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:54AM (#33705217)
The comment I replied to doesn't sound too informed.

Fortified wine culture sounds more like Portugal to me, even though they definitely make it almost everywhere.

EDIT: typo

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:07PM (#33712228)
The Russian preference for sweet wine might be due to Stalin, actually:

> The production of Soviet champagne prioritized quantity over quality. Grape growers uprooted acres of indigenous vines from Moldova to Tajikistan and replaced them with durable, high-yield varieties that catered to Stalin’s sweet tooth.

> The result was Sovetskoye Shampanskoye, a cheap, syrup-sweet sparkling wine for the ordinary Soviet worker.

https://www.singaporewinevault.com/busting-the-myths-around-...

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