Pink Hummer.

Ask wine consumers how pink wine is made and you’ll get anything from a vacant stare or a disinterested shoulder shrug to some good hypotheses. The most prominent (and, honestly, most logical) is that pink wine is made by blending varying proportions of white and red wines.

Whether they are the product of bleeding, limited skin contact or blending, these pink wines seem to be perceived as marginal, throw-away products. The red-headed (…) step children of the wine world.

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Pontiac Aztek.

It appears that GM has filed for bankruptcy and will be undergoing reorganization in the very near future. While every industry is different, each is subject to the same rules of economics and the marketplace. Additionally, applying too universal of a business template to a particular product or industry results in very common problems. Those problems tend not to be restricted to any particular industry or product.

In CNN’s coverage of the impending GM bankruptcy, a summary called “GM’s junk heap” was published last week. Reading it, I could not help but see parallels between GM’s flops and a considerable number of wines in the shelves today.

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