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Girls Just Wanna Have...Wha-uh?
By: Jennifer Rosen	<< back   Page 2 of 2

Lest a feminine heartstring be left untugged, many of the new crop of she-wines make a big deal of supporting various medical causes involving gyno-plumbing, a goodly thing that nevertheless does little to whet my appetite and much to set off my manipulation meter. At the risk of sounding insensitive: gag me with a corkscrew.

I have no idealistic beef against marketing. Actually, I love it. So why does this trend irritate me so? Putting aside personal, tom-boy distaste, wines designed by focus-group tend towards lowest common-denominator blandness. They lose all relation to the living, ever-changing, mystery-in-a-bottle, and then wine ceases to be the most interesting of all drinks and becomes just another “product.” I’m sorry, but it makes me sad. That may be irrational, but what do you expect from a woman? © Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.

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