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the Evanses. Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast. We're super excited

today to have with us the founder and CEO of Republican Red wines. Paul Johnson is with us to talk about wines, tariffs, conversation, all of it. Very happy that you're here with us. Thank you for being with us.

Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure.

So tell our audience, give our audience sort of the inside scoop, if you will, about the American

wine industry and what people might be, say, the most surprised to learn about how wine

is actually grown and bottled and sold and all of that.

Yeah.

I think a lot of people think that when you think of a winery, you think of a vineyard on a winery, and they grow the grapes and they make the wine and they sell to your doorstep.

People kind of have this notion of the wine industry. But really, while there are some wineries like that, it's pretty, it can also be very fragmented where people just focus on growing.

Other companies just focus on making wine and others will be focused on kind of marketing and selling brands and

something people don't know and there's been quite a bit of press about this at least within the

industry is big wineries especially kind of use this approach where they can import up to 25% of a blend of a bottle from South America, Australia, Europe, and put it into a bottle that is labeled as if it's made in America.

And when you add up all of that imported wine, it's roughly equal to the shortage that,

you know, I come up from a farming background, so I'm partial to the farming side of things.

And if you add up what is imported, it is roughly equal to the shortage that the American

farmers face.

And so farmers are left dropping fruit on the ground.

And yet a lot of the big wine companies are importing wine.

And it's, you know, you look at this going, this maybe is a good case for tariffs to support

the American industry.

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