Comments on: Cristal Bites The Hands That Feed

by: Champagne Name Game « FUSSYlittleBLOG

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:07:51 +0000

[…] There is a French company in California’s Anderson Valley that makes one of my favorite American sparkling wines. It is Roederer, the house of the infamous Cristal. The firm got into trouble years back when they were asked about all the hip-hop attention possibly hurting the brand. […]

by: pmd8

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:39:52 +0000

Why should they want to be associated with misogynistic “artists” who for the most part produce unoriginal videos and music?

by: MeanGrape

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:52:16 +0000

The word “tolérance” and the adjective “tolérant” in French do not have the same sense that the English words “tolerance” and “tolerant”.

I hate racists. But in this case I think you are blowing things out of proportion and even showing a typical american anti-French ressentment. Which is not far from racism.

by: Alec

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:29:23 +0000

It’s ironic that the recent AP story about the Miami Heat NBA victory notes that “the team drank 22 bottles of the high-end Cristal champagne on the flight [home]…” I wonder how much Cristal’s sales might increase over this brief blurb about a group of basketball players happily enjoying their champagne (probably much more than if the story was about the French World Cup soccer team drowning their sorrows in Cristal after their latest loss). When little more than a photograph of Angelina Jolie’s baby can result in increased sales of the tee shirt the baby was wearing, the stupidity of Rouzaud’s comments – and the repugnance of his apparent belief that some consumers are preferable to others — become even more apparent.

by: Maggie

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:07:08 +0000

I second Jameson’s vote for the Palm d’Or…Feuillatte’s a new company that treats growers well.

And Brian, no affiliations, sorry. But I was a buyer, for many years. I am a wine rogue, and treat everything as fair game (though I do have some very good friends that sell Roederer). So if anything I have insentive to not speak up.