Not everyone likes or wants to drink local wine

Re: Grape expectations, The Standard, Sept. 13.

I've seen enough front-page sympathy stories about our "poor" winery owners and all their trials and tribulations about how hard it is to sell their products.

Is it that hard for The Standard to come up with more newsworthy stories besides the whining winery owners? It's bad enough that they are trying to force feed us with their over-hyped and over-priced wines, but to constantly keep playing to people's sympathies is too much.

I have had enough of articles about VQA this and VQA that. Don't these winery owners know the rules when they decide to start up a winery?

There are countless businesses out there that have to fend for themselves and search out customers, why should the wineries be any different? It's a business isn't it? Didn't they have a

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business plan? They all seem to think they can just write their own ticket as far as putting wine where they want it. Do they forget that wine is an alcoholic substance and therefore a controlled product, hence the word control in LCBO?

Stop telling me what wine I can drink when I go out to a restaurant or what wine I can buy from the LCBO; I'm over-regulated enough already.

Contrary to all the popular hype, not everyone wants or even likes most of the local wine. Why do you think imported wine sales are still very good?

Even though we have to dodge huge displays of Ontario wine to find the imported brands, it's not enough for the local vintners.

Maybe more businesses should try to get a front-page article or two and see if they can increase whatever market share they are looking for. As for myself, I hope I don't knock over any VQA displays on my way to finding a good bottle of imported wine.