Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
The Illinois State Capital is among the most beautiful buildings I’ve ever seen. It is literally awe inspiring. Perfectly proportioned, topped with a great gilded dome, filled with magnificent statues of great men and women, festooned with murals that speak to the travails and mighty triumphs of pioneers and leaders. It is the kind of place that Laine Hanson, the first American Vice President in the movie "The Contenderr", would identify as a "Chapel of Democracy". What a shame that…
It appears that the future of wine labels may include a hefty dose of Ugly. A little "ugly" never hurt anyone, but a hefty dose of ugly is just down right….ugly. It appears there is a serious move to force nutritional labels on alcohol bottlings, including wine. It’s a Bush Administration proposal that is supported fully by The Center For Science in the Public Interest…the folks who spent time particularly in the 1990s explaining to us all why we will…
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly (YES, that is the name of a publication. Wouldn’t you have liked to be in on the meeting when the powers that be over at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who publish it all got together and decided on that name!) is reporting that Spirits is the drink most often chosen by teenagers. Forty Percent of those participating in the study identified spirits (meaning bourbon, vodka, etc.) as their preferred drink. Beer came in…
For anyone who has not been following the attempt in Illinois to re-write the wine distribution laws in that state so that distributors are granted even more power than the state already grants them, a new development has occurred. A new association of wineries calling themselves The Illinois Winemakers Alliance has formed in part to oppose Illinois House Bill 429. HB 429 does a variety of things: 1. Allows out-of-state wineries to ship to Illinoisans2. Allows in-state wineries to ship…
TAKE "THE MEANING OF WINE BLOGS" SURVEY NOW!________________________________________________________________________ It appears that the European Union is on track to institute a variety of winemaking and wine marketing reforms, assuming the top winemaking countries don’t find a way to shoot them down. What I find fascinating is the rationale for the opposition to the reforms. Among the reforms: -The EU will remove 500,000 acres of the "least viable" vines. This is roughly the amount of all of the vines planted in California…
