Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
Arizonans got their new wine shipping law today when their governor signed a bill that is a near perfect representation of the type of legislation being considered in one from or another across the country. The new Arizona wine shipping law allows any winery in Arizona or elsewhere to ship directly to both residents or retailers in the state with the caveat that the winery doing the shipping produces less than 20,000 gallons per year. This is the equivalent of…
Helen Turley, America’s most famous "consulting winemaker", is again facing a lawsuit involving a client. This doesn’t really surprise me, for a number of reasons. What is interesting however is the mindset that would allow a person to agree to Ms. Turley’s terms for her participation as a consulting winemaker: -Agree to spend a huge, top-end sum of money on both vineyard development and building a winery to Turley’s exact specifications(vineyard development I can understand…But why spend huge amounts on…
I’m not sure what to make of this:"Greenpeace today revealed that France’s iconic sparkling wine, Champagne, is threatened by radioactive contamination leaking from a nuclear waste dumpsite in the region. Low levels of radioactivity have already been found in underground water less than 10 km from the famous Champagne vineyards….The Champagne producers are facing two nuclear timebombs – one already leaking at Soulaine, and one planned at Bure. The wine producers in the Rhone region stood up to the nuclear…
If you are a wine blog reader you’ve probably noticed that most of what’s being written in the wine blog world is mostly produced by wine lover, rather than wine insiders, let alone wine insiders of any heft. We have few blogs that are written by wine writing pros and some winemaker blogs. So it’s nice to see an insider with great heft contributing to a blog. The heftyman is Corbin Houchins. Corbin is one of America’s leading wine lawyers….
What is "a taste" of wine? This is the issue that the Director of the Alcohol Beverage Control office of the State of California is clearing up. In a memo from the Directors office to it’s division and branch offices, the Director has made clear that "Since the Legislature has determined that a 1 ounce serving is sufficient and reasonable to acquaint a consumer with the qualities and characteristics of wine in an on-sale environment, it is reasonable to conclude…
