Whining about wine!

So I've lived here in the US for about 8 years now. I just visited our local Food Lion. They have a wide selection of wines, but here comes my rant. Why do we need 400 different Chardonnays? Ok I'm cool with a few from each state, some French, Australian etc. In contrast I found about 5 Chiantis and only a couple of other Italian wines, even fewer German ones.

Being from Britain I was bewildered by the choice at US supermarkets when I moved here. Millions of choices of milk and orange juice. Just seems wierd that there would be so many Chardonnays. Maybe it's a subtle way of putting France out of business? Who can tell.

I guess if I want a good selection of wine I need a wine retailer rather than a supermarket. And don't get me started on not being able to buy Chimay in North Carolina :-)

Rant ends.......