Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
The Label! It is the primary and most important marketing tool any and every winery uses to market its wines. The label tells prospective purchasers the wineries name, the kind of wine that is in the bottle, where the grapes were grown that went into the production of the wine the prospective purchaser is considering, the year during which those grapes were grown, and it can convey by its design numerous other messages about the character, desires, intent, philosophy and…
You've got to appreciate a man and an organization that is willing to stand up and publicly dispute America's great founding jurist John Marshall. Furthermore, you've got to appreciate the balls it takes to oppose the very foundation of American jurisprudence by opposing the doctrine of Judicial Review. "Judicial Review" is the legal doctrine that Federal Courts possess the right and the jurisdiction to have the final word on whether or not a federal or state law is constitutional. This…
This was lots of fun. It’s always nice to obtain your 30 seconds of fame. However, the discussion of the similarities between wine and marijuana discussed in this CNBC segment to which I was asked to contribute (see 40 seconds in..) raises a lot of questions. The most interesting issue raised is that of “Dope Critics”. Were it legal to buy and sell Marijuana in California, would a crop of “marijuana critics” rise up and flood us with their opinions?…
Reason apparently lives and discrimination for the sake of discrimination is again shot down. That's the conclusion I draw from a decision today that came out of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston where Family Winemakers of California challenged that state's law that forced wineries over 30,000 gallons annual production to choose to sell direct to consumers or be distributed only by wholesalers. Wineries under 30,000 gallons did not have to make this choice. Furthermore, under the MA…
WINE & SPIRIT WHOLESALERS ASSOCIATION SECURES SARAH PALIN AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT 2010 CONVENTIONS I'm don't think I have any words to add to this comic turn of events….Wait a minute…we all know that's not true. Of course I have some words to add. First, the above headline, written by the PR department of the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers Association is unusually disrespectful. I'm sure she is supposed to be referred to as GOVERNOR Palin, whether she hightailed it out…
