I could agree with the parallel strategy. However that might mean double
inventory and stores carrying multiple's of cork and stelvins might have no
choice but to reduce selection.


"Ian Hoare" > wrote in message
...
> Salut/Hi loobyloo,
>
> le/on Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:21:21 +0000, tu disais/you said:-
>
>>On 30 Jan 2005 17:08:40 GMT, Michael Pronay wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> OK then - how about the wax and cloth industry 200 years ago, when
>>> the first moves to cork arised? Things *are* changing, and life
>>> today is not like it has been 30, 50 or 150 years ago.
>>>
>>
>>That's not going to be much of a consolation to the thousands of people
>>who
>>depend on producing wine corks as an explanation of why they're going to
>>be
>>out of a job. It's a important industrial sector in Portugal and its
>>demise
>>would damage the country's economy.
>
> Not half as much a blow is it would be, if every time a corked wine was
> poured down the drain, the consumer took legal action to recover their
> loss.
> I think there is quite a good case for action to be taken under existing
> consumer legislation, certainly in the UK. A product must be of
> "merchantable quality", and must carry out the function for which it is
> sold. Corks don't.
>
> In any case, in my previous reply to you, I have dealt with the accuracy
> of
> the cork manufacturers' claim that the entire viability of life and
> civilisation as we know it in the Alentejo would collapse if winemakers
> stopped using cork as a closure material. I don't think it's true, and I
> think you should give some supporting evidence of it if you seek to
> convince
> us.
>
>>Of course even higher grade cork is going to taint the odd wine. I just
>>think the suggestion to abandon cork altogether is disproportionate to the
>>incovenience it causes.
>
> I'd not argue in favour if its total abandonment. What I want is to be
> able
> to choose freely, perhaps through some kind of parallel marketing
> strategy.
> Cork closures through wine merchants etc and screwtops through
> supermarkets.
>
> Just as I'd not want to force you to buy screwtops if you don't want to,
> I'd
> hope that you would encourage winemakers to make both styles of closure
> available.
>
>
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> Ian Hoare
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