Trump Winery picks a holiday to celebrate

by philg

As a mail-order customer of the Trump Winery (nothing starts a conversation faster in Massachusetts than bringing Trump-brand sparkling wine to a party!), I get periodic emails from the enterprise. Today they picked a holiday to celebrate. August 26 is National Dog Day and Women’s Equality Day (celebrating the 1920 19th Amendment). Possibly due to the fact that the winery offers leashes and collars, the marketeers decided to pick National Dog Day. (But maybe Eric Schneiderman and his ladyfriends were customers for these Trump logo items?)

9 thoughts on “Trump Winery picks a holiday to celebrate”

  1. How was the wine?

    I’d seen bad reviews of Trump wine but the reviewers seemed politically motivated so I can’t be sure. When I stayed at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas earlier this month, the bottled Trump-branded water tasted icky, although the rest of the hotel experience was “more luxurious than comparably priced hotels, cheaper than comparably luxurious hotels”.

  2. How is the wine? As good as a $40 bottle from Napa, which is to say as good as a $1 bottle from a supermarket in Argentina. The existence of US-made wine is proof that markets are not efficient!

  3. Philip, you’re highly rational and you don’t seem to hate anyone. Have you considered that bringing Trump-branded wine to parties in MA is raising Trump-haters blood pressure, increasing their stress levels, and thus lowering their life expectancy and raising health care costs? Be a normal, boring conformist for the sake of your neighbors!

  4. >raising Trump-haters blood pressure, increasing their stress levels, and thus lowering their life expectancy and raising health care costs

    On the other hand, won’t future generations benefit from not having around these easily stressed people and their genes ? Especially if their healthcare is more expensive as you imply. I feel Philip may really have been taking the long term view, and helping our future grandchildren by improving our collective gene pool. Thanks, Philip. On the other other hand, it is eugeny, so … tricky tradeoffs! Pick your own.

  6. As an unexpected medically recommended teetotaler since October 19, 2010 (some dates you don’t forget), my wine experience now is trolling the wine aisles in supermarkets reading labels (“mmm, a Sonoma County pinot noir, I remember pinot noir…”).

    Incredibly, abstaining late in life has not been as difficult as I expected.

    All that said, never Trump. Pick another one at your price with a label you like.

  8. Federico:

    This is not fair! I was about to post a suggestion that, if one has a taste for richer, fruitier wines, they should definitely consider something from the south of Italy: perhaps Puglia, Sicilia, or maybe even Sardenia. These are all in a good taste, unlike most of the Kalifornia/Oregon produce. I like Jordan’s I must admit, but that’s a usually a white wine at a $80 mark and is generally not worth the price. Trump’s vineyards are actually quite decent and very representative of the rest of the Kali price-wise, IMHO.

    If you are willing to pay $70+ for a US-like taste profile I would strongly recommend to try an Israeli wine: they are very unique and refined but their tiny production and strict laws dictate high prices.

    Most US-made white wines would not beat a decent Veneto.

  9. Federico: Uh oh. The French lost again 30 years later. See http://barry.bz/judgement-of-paris-3-years-on-how-competi-35-years-on/

    But do we trust expert tasters who can’t tell the difference between red and white? (see https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamous_study_on_wine_tasting.html )

    And how does it make sense that an agricultural product that is not intended to be consumed fresh (in fact, quite the opposite!) is made in a country with high costs for both real estate (farmland) and labor?

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