Mydnight wrote:

> The recent spam about the greatness of Chinese
> wines came to mind tonight as we sat around the
> low table with my students attempting to
> drink a bottle of Great Wall. Retailing at like
> 150RMB (about 18-20USD depending on Erate), you
> would expect a decent experience or
> at least something better than utter swill. The
> Chinese keep the age- old tradition of high
> prices for low quality goods well alive in Great
> Wall.
>
> Marked Cabernet Sauvignon, the bottle had
> elaborate pictures with some patriotic stars and
> other insignias that I supposed was to make one
> feel pride in partaking of the grapes of the
> motherland. No date, no mention of production,
> or any other particular information was
> available on the bottle other than some
> scrawlings of Chinese here and there talking
> about the fake history of the company and the
> address of where the factory is located.
>
> Fake cork that shattered and splintered in the
> Guangdong humidity upon
> opening. Suspect poor storage for poor wine.
>
> The color was a deep maroon?
>
> Nose: Sour grape juice, asphalt, smog, dirty
> rags
>
> The brew didn't go down as smooth as the nose.
> It seems the tannins had been completely removed
> somehow which made me think Welshes grape
> juice had more "pucker". First impressions were
> sort of raunchy with a definite feel of some
> kind of chemically produced, soured grape
> juice. Palate....I don't even know how to
> describe it. If you can imagine the smell of
> asphalt in your mouth, that's about it.
>
> Now my stomach hurts and I feel dizzy.
>
>
> This is a 20 dollar bottle of Chinese wine that
> luckily I didn't have
> to pay for. But, there was a lot of freebees
> that were "song" (given for free), like a bottle
> stand/opener, to try to add value to an
> already expensive wine. Terrible experience
>
> F-

And just think - they are poisoning or pets,
putting poison in toothpaste and are exporting
over the counter drugs (which receive little or
no inspection on US side) to the US - AND the
chemicals used to manufacture "Drugs made in USA"
The Chinese have found the free market way to
conquer America and the present Administration is
doing their bidding.