Americans bought more French wine during "boycott" than before it
 

Despite threatening to boycott French products when Paris opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq (news - web sites), Americans overtook Germans as the biggest spenders on France's Bordeaux wines in the 2002-03 sales year.

The volume of Bordeaux wines sold to the United States also rose, climbing 20 percent in the year to July 31, 2003 -- a period that included the build-up and bitter aftermath of Washington's diplomatic tangle with Paris over Iraq.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../od_nm/wine_dc

:1orglaugh

any publicity is good publicity


unless you're matrix.

we love to drink :thumbsup

how's their tourism doing with US dollars?

I thought the wine came from the other France.

its only wine....
thats the only thing they can

French wine is quality wine.

We're not the brightest nation.... but we sure as hell want what we can't have. :2 cents:

There was a boycott... but it obviously wasn't against the french. :2 cents:

Anyone in the UK that likes wine would be insane to boycott it when they can just hop over to calais for the afternoon and pick up decent stuff for under a dollar.

I will boycott escargot ....sorry, freedom snails.

What he said.

In my opinion if anyone was "boycotting" the french it was the media. Maybe 5 people decided to boycott it so CNN, Fox, MSNBC all report it and suddenly the entire US is boycotting France.

so true

That entire ordeal was asinine... the lowest point being freedom fries. Fuddruckers (the only large chain I know to officially start selling freedom fries) still haven't put the word french back on their fries... now they just say fries. Yeah, take that, French!

Considering the value of it these days I doubt they want it :(