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Date: December 03, 2023 at 10:35:19
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: got a spam email from The Rump Winery today |
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wonder how i got on their list...lol...30% off tho...
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Date: December 04, 2023 at 09:16:04
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: got a spam email from The Rump Winery today |
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I get calls from Kevin McCarthy's campaign because I'm
such a good supporter.
I let them do their speel (morbid curiosity and
fascination), laugh..and tell them "boy do you have a
wrong number".
They never take me off their list, though.
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Date: December 04, 2023 at 08:33:55
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Critics say DJT wine tastes like Welch's grape jelly with alcohol |
URL: https://www.progressive-charlestown.com/2017/12/critics-say-trump-wine-is-like-welchs.html?m=1 |
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(Looks like they'd better keep marking it down...lol...)
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One of America’s top wine experts brutally reviews Trump
Wines
After the Charlottesville protests turned deadly, Trump
held a series of press conferences where he infamously
made statements equating the neo-Nazis and white
supremacists with the peaceful protesters, stoking even
more anger.
During one press briefing in particular, Trump took the
occasion to promote one of his company’s products, Trump
Wines, which he said were made in a nearby winery in
Virginia, that he said was the largest in the state.
Trump had said that he owned the winery – and he did buy
it in a deal that was a huge bargain – but it is now
actually owned and overseen by his son, Eric.
That set a journalist from Vanity Fair off on a quest to
learn more about Trump Wines and the winery – which he
learned wasn’t the largest in Virginia – making about
45,000 cases a year, compared to at least two other area
wineries that produce 60,000 cases a year or more.
On its website, the Vanity Fair journalist read, Trump’s
winery said it had “the most acres planted in Vitis
Vinifera, the classic species of wine grapes, of any East
Coast vineyard,” which he learned was also “way off.”
Trump, he reports, has 210 acres while Pindar, on Long
Island, New York, has 500 acres and produces almost twice
as many cases of wine per year.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Trump's winery is in line to get a
substantial tax cut under the GOP tax bill Trump recently
signed, plus a tax CREDIT of between fifty cents and a
dollar per gallon. This amazing subsidy was one of the
many goodies lobbyists managed to get tucked into the
bill. It's also another one of the many ways the tax bill
personally benefited Trump and his family. - W. Collette
Then came the big question: how good is the wine produced
by Trump Wineries?
So the journalist found a world-class wine expert to
sample the wines and provide an expert opinion.
The first problem was finding the wines.
Although Trump had claimed that they were widely
distributed, he could only find them available in two
places – the Trump hotel in the old post office in
Washington and the Trump Grill in Manhattan, in Trump
Tower.
EDITOR'S NOTE: One place you can buy Trump Wine is at the
concession in the Shenandoah National Park. This raises
yet another red flag for potential conflict of interest
by Trump. But of course, you knew that. - W. Collette
When they asked for the Trump wines, the server seemed
surprised and a little embarrassed, but eventually turned
up several choices.
First, they tried Trump’s Chardonnay.
“Oaked up,” the expert said. “Sweet. Too much residual
sugar. Harvest too ripe. Flabby. Really clumsy.”
He also deeded it expensive for what it was – $68 a
bottle at the restaurant for the 2015 vintage and $22 a
bottle on Trump’s website for the 2016 vintage.
His opinion of the 2015 Trump Meritage was even worse.
“My guest tastes the Meritage: ‘Welch’s grade jelly with
alcohol. A terrible, funny, alcoholic nose. If I served
you that in an airplane you’d be mad.'”
They also tried Trump’s New World Reserve, a more
expensive wine made from a similar blend of red grapes
grown around Charlottesville. The label said it was
“Estate Bottled,” and it sells for $54 a bottle on the
website.
“It’s fine,” the expert said. “No reserve, by which I
mean flavors that keep unwinding like an onion skin. It
doesn’t offend. I’d get drunk on it at a wedding.”
Then he paused and added, “Let’s be honest. I’d get drunk
on anything at a wedding.”
In the article, the story is told of how John Kluge, once
one of the richest men in America (when he owned
Metromedia TV and radio companies), bought the estate
when he married his wife Patricia, whom he later
divorced.
She eventually turned to making wine to keep the estate
going, bringing in experts to help plant, harvest and
make the wine.
But it never was as good as hoped, and eventually, she
went bankrupt and Trump bought the estate, once valued at
$100 million, for a fraction of that by acquiring it in
sections until he was the only one who wanted what was
left.
The message was that the wine was not very good but Eric
Trump got credit for keeping the estate and facilities in
good condition as they try to improve things.
The reality is that Trump Wine is now mostly for tourists
and those who want to buy the famous label. When Trump
was first elected, there were a lot of buyers, but as the
President’s reputation has waned, so have the number of
those who seek the wine.
“At the end of the day Trump wines suck,” the expert said
as the dinner in Washington ended “But they give a lot of
good and loyal people paychecks.”
Like so many of Trump’s ventures, his efforts in the wine
business are a lot of hype with less than wonderful
products and a business that isn’t anywhere as big, as
successful or as important as the hype-filled promises
that Trump likes to make.
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Date: December 03, 2023 at 17:59:07
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: got a spam email from The Rump Winery today |
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Maybe you were eating shrooms and accidentally sighed up.
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Date: December 03, 2023 at 18:01:03
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: got a spam email from The Rump Winery today |
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yah, that's probably it...i sigh up for just about anything...
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Date: December 03, 2023 at 18:02:55
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: got a spam email from The Rump Winery today |
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