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Keurig cries uncle.  With consumers raising hell over the Keurig 2.0 scheme and sales of the new Keurig 2.0 started sinking faster than the Titanic did. Keurig gives in and says it will cave to consumers and discontinue it's practice of it's coffee makes only excepting Keurig approved K-cups.  Now what? Well Keurig has a lot of consumer anger to mollify. The Keurig scheme was nothing short of a consumer rip off  by a heartless greedy corporation. With a cost approaching $50.00 a pound in the approved K-cups. Calling it a rip off is being mild.  It is obvious that the powers that be at Keurig  see their costumers only as a    revenue source. Not as people wanting a good product at a reasonable cost. Bottom line..... drop dead Keurig. You are a day late and a dollar short.  

First it is the grapes used then how the grapes are fermented and aged.   The color is in large part a result of the color of the grape's skin. Red grapes, red wine White grapes, white wine. Remove the grape skin and there is little difference in the color of the red or white grapes. Both are for the most part white inside.  When fermented, the additional pressing that red grapes receive releases the tannins and colors into the wine giving red wines their color and flavors of red wines.   After fermentation, Red wines are matured and conditioned in oak barrels for several months or longer.  The longer time the wine is in a barrel the deeper the color is likely to be However to long in the ageing barrel can be Bad news for any wine. Excess wood tannins will make the wine unpalatable even to those with the most exotic palate. To much aging in barrels is avoided for especially for white wines. This will overpower the lighter flavors of white wines, a few (such as Chardonnay) are

The new Starbucks express is opening soon on Wall Street in New York City.   Starbucks Express is a result of the coffee drinking public wanting their coffee fix faster. Yet will not compromise on Starbucks quality coffee's and high end décor.   Starbucks express is introducing new efficiency's into the ordering process. A Starbuck employee will come to you in line and send your order in byway of a wireless devise. This step is hoped to reduce your weight time from placing your order to having you drink by as much as half. This is from the typical 4 minute weight time at your local Starbucks today.  Perhaps Starbucks could make a marked decrease in the time from when your orders is places to in your hand would be if Starbucks would have a coffee only lane. Let the people who want the more labor and time consuming drinks have the longer weight time.