Dear editor, It is hard to believe that a valley icon like Copia can be facing bankruptcy when, on Oct. 18, it sold out its movie theater at $40 a head with people being turned away at the door (and it was on a weeknight).
The Seymour Hersh talk was filled to overflowing and Copia couldn’t even turn on its ventilation system. But guess what? There wasn’t even one drop of wine consumed at the function.
What I find refreshing is that there are people in this valley more concerned with world events than having their nose in a glass.
Don’t the powers that be in the so-called “wine country” understand that there is something fatally flawed with a lifestyle that revolves around alcohol? Too bad the wine pushers haven’t learned what other successful drug dealers know, and that is that you do not partake of your product. One does not make good business decisions when one’s thinking is impaired by a mind-altering substance. Now, Copia is going to refocus and reorganize by downplaying food and art and concentrating more on wine. More emphasis on wine in the wine country? Yep, that ought to do it!
Isn’t that what is meant by “carrying coal to Newcastle”?
It is said that Washington runs on alcohol. Is it possible that the chemically impaired thinking that made the decision that produced such a poor business venture in Copia was at work in the decision to start a war in Iraq? As some in this valley seek the wine-anesthetized good life and slip slide down the slippery slope to addiction, there are others who face reality and believe that with the Bush administration, we are on a dark and dangerous road. By our own definition of terrorism, the United States has become the world’s largest terrorist nation.
The pink elephant in the middle of the room and the white elephant in the middle of the valley are symptoms of the same syndrome. The first symbolizes the alcoholic that the family never discusses and the latter is symbolic of Copia’s downfall and what no one in the valley wants to discuss. With France distilling its better wines into disinfectant and gasoline additives, what’s next?
Maybe the party is over.
Evelyn Irene Trott / Napa
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