California’s Napa Valley is fermenting into a full-blown revolt as furious vineyard owners warn a new fee could leave them paying tens of thousands of dollars a year - the latest financial punch threatening to crush the struggling wine industry.
Farmers across the iconic Northern California enclave say they are staring down financial disaster as the state moves to crucify them for their use of groundwater.
Under a new law coming into effect later this summer, wineries will have to pay just under $99 per acre per year on land they irrigate as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s sustainable water initiative.
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It comes as the region, once famed across the world for its wine, is already in crisis mode over plummeting profits, fewer tourists, changing drinking habits and wildfires wiping out farmland.
Well someone has to pay for all the free shit that the Democrat politicians have promised.
ReplyDeletebuying votes costs money. dont they know that? besides the snail darter is endangered and that takes precedent
ReplyDeleteSupporters of Socialism NEVER seem to think it will ever harm THEM...just everyone else somehow. LOL
ReplyDelete"sustainable water initiative"
ReplyDeleteTranslated: WE NEED MORE MONEY FOR OUR ILLEGALS.
They will just move their operations out of state. Oregon and Eastern WA have thriving, established vineyards. As a confirmed wine bibber for many years, I noticed about 7-9 years ago after the series of devastating fires in the Napa-Sonoma grape growing areas, the bulk red such as Cabernet, had a very distinct and unpleasant smoky finish to it. Nothing is free, fair or forever. As a SoCal refugee, the White Liberal Establishment of that area has always looked down their noses at the rest of the state and have been pretty much immune, except for recent fires, to the crime, social degeneracy, and political syphilitic thinking that has destroyed most of the rest of the state. Nothing will change until the entire country goes Weimar 2.0. When that will happen is anyone's guess. Life is a vale of tears.
ReplyDeleteHere comes the drought bullshit again. Just as Chad Bianco who just lost his bid for gov said CA gets way more water than most states. Storms come off the Pacific Ocean and get. blocked by the Sierra Mts and drop more rain and snow than we could ever use. The problem is politics. Crooked politicians know to control the food and water is to control the people.
ReplyDeleteThe ONLY thing that commies in power are ever successful at is killing the goose that lays the golden egg. And driving Napa wineries out of business is a classic example.
ReplyDeleteWhen the wineries wells started taking out all the old time wells, no one cared.
ReplyDeletecare to bet nancy pelosis winery is exempt?
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