Douro: Harbor in an Economic Tempest
Oct. 14th, 2009 06:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

By ERIC ASIMOV
Published: October 14, 2009
IN the year or so since the economy plummeted without a parachute, Americans have not stopped buying wine. They’ve simply bought cheaper wine. Whether this will ultimately be seen as a time of sacrifice or an eye-opening education remains to be determined, but I have a hunch that many people will find it easy, when the economy recovers, not to resume their free-spending ways. More