This is a blog dedicated to ancient and vinum, oinos or whatever you want to call wine. We promise to only write about wine and anything that relates to antiquity, especially Roman and Greeks - ancient people, who fought with swords, not walked in pants, be talking, dead languages and drank wine from amphora (and wineskins). Pax Vobiscum.
The country has just gotten a new government and it is only to congratulate the civic space in government offices. We who have lived a little while remembering how the mown Prime Minister Thorbjorn Jagland launched the idea of the Norwegian house, with visionary ideas and weird ministers. It was never entirely clear what "the Norwegian House" was for a building. Only it's high ceilings and a good wine cellar is perhaps not so dangerous. We're be a nation of explorers and one of the most Norwegian houses I can think of is just Polet. This is also one that politicians have built and maintained.
Neither politicians nor Polet is to compare the ancient days, but etymologically derives both from ancient Greece. A politician is derived be from the Greek word for city-state, polis, and that concerns the community of citizens, Politiko (as in the concept of a political nature: zoon police officer), and the political constitution, Politeia. The same word is found again in the police, cosmopolitan metropolis, necropolis (dødeby), but not in monopoly. The word monopoly comes from the Greek monopolion (mono, "one" + polein "sell") and thus denotes an exclusive sales right. It was both products and periods where the authorities of ancient cities intervened against a free market, so that individuals had the exclusive right to perform a certain work or sell a certain commodity, was not foreign to the ancients. One could also operate with tariff walls and other special charges that made some products from elsewhere particularly expensive - or vice versa government could also subsidize necessities and control the production and distribution of food and drink. Emperor be Domitian (81-96) banned the planting of vines, presumably in an attempt to prevent the conversion of arable land and thus lack of grain and other major agricultural products. Nevertheless, enough a normal Roman shake astonished at the head of a government Monopolium vini, which would be responsible for all distribution of wine throughout the Roman Empire. It would have been impossible. be But they had then neither political parties, governments elected for four-year terms and a large bureaucracy.
Now that the alcohol tax cuts party FRP come within the doors of the Norwegian government quarter, it may need to wait for cheaper wine. It greets this blogger welcome. be There are many of us who think alcohol taxes are well stalling in Norway. And have you once set foot inside the door on what is referred to as Norwegian pole, Systembolaget outlets be on the way to Strömstad, so we see the manifestation of what the view of some dollars cheaper be brush it does with Norwegians. And with marketable Systembolaget, for that matter: The selection of quality wines is minimal, pallets of bag-in-box of fit mawkish grape juice ubiquitous.
My prayer to Solberg Government is anyway: Please do not touch Vinmonopolet! For freedom of choice and quality matter! One of the finest with just this Norwegian house committee, and that the sample is determined by someone - just enough hard-to-understand - rules and principles designed to ensure the quality, diversity and equal opportunities for various importers and wineries. Manufacturers, importers, retailers, bloggers and other stakeholders, precisely, often own interests in the sale of certain products. Polets neutral and objective character should be a bulwark against vested interests and economic power, quality and choice. In polutsalg there is normally be a good and wide selection of wines in most price categories, from many countries and manufacturers, and-license website you can easily search and find the outlets that have what the shelves and get access be to about 10,000 other various wines from order selection. The system is unique and fabulous for a vinentusiast.
Kiwi, Joker and the supermarket will not take in a wide range of quality wines, and although it certainly is going to establish good wine merchants in the major cities, their portfolio and sales volume will be limited compared to the current liquor store. The result will be that bulkvin getting cheaper on supermarket shelves, while quality wines are more expensive and less accessible to most people. Either way, the diversity and the range is limited. In sum becomes our choice considerably restricted on Polet discontinued. So, for God's sake (and thus also partners in Krf) and for our sake (all of us who love good wine and options), keep Polet!
Before I get enrolled be in Vinmonopolet fanclub, let me still scramble to say that I think there has been a negative trend in recent years. It is noticeable that the range of polutsalg standardized and decreases. be It seems
