BERLIN, March 6.—Thousands of gallons of two and three year old wine are going bogging at 15 cents a quart In the wine-growing valleys of the Moselle, Saar and Ruhr, where the growers are desperately in need of money and are willing to convert their stocks into cash at almost any figure. Even at 15 cents a quart, which is exclusive of the federal tax of 20 per cent, there are few buyers.
One buyer is described as a foreign syndicate, which is said to be willing to make the attempt to smuggle the wine into the United States in spite of its bulk.
Conditions in the vineyard country on both sides of the Rhine are such that plantations having as high as 40,000 vines are being leased for a song. The growers are asking for at least a year’s suspension of the vineyard tax.
The Evening Star, Washington, DC, March 7, 1926