Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
The impact of surveys is most often not driven by their content, but rather by the headlines that result. I was reminded of this today when I saw the following reported in newspapers and across the Internet: "Over 60% of Kids Exposed To Violence""Justice Survey: Majority of Kids Exposed To Violence""60% of Kids Exposed to Violence in the Past Year: Justice Department" This is just the tip of the iceberg of the numerous stories that ran today on this shocking…
“A (wine) blogger could receive (wine) merchandise from a marketer with a request to review it, but with no compensation paid other than the value of the product itself. In this situation, whether or not any positive statement the (wine) blogger posts would be deemed an “endorsement” within the meaning of the Guides would depend on, among other things, the value of that (wine) product, and on whether the (wine) blogger routinely receives such requests. If that (wine) blogger frequently…
Every now and then it's important to call a tool a tool. Harry Schumacher, publisher of Beer Business Daily, is a tool. If you want to see what can be produced by a good tool, go here: Beer Business Daily. Now I have no problem with someone making themselves a tool of an industry. It's a legitimate career choice, though not one I'd want for my children, for whom I would hope for a life of dignity. Still, it's a…
The power of the Internet has not, to-date, been utilized efficiently to address the failings of the wine distribution system. The bottle neck that is called the "Three Tier System" whereby nearly all wines are funneled through a state mandated sale to a middle man is the source of most problems that exist where access to wine is concerned, be it access to wine by restaurants, retailers or consumers. A system that was devised over 70 years ago in an…
Reason Magazine, a bastion of….reason….has released a video interview with Jerome Tuccille, the author of "Gallo Be Thy Name: The Inside Story of How One Family Rose to Dominate the U.S. Wine Market". It's pretty interesting. I've not read the book, but it sounds as though what we have here is a social history of the rise of American wine and the evolution of American culture told from the perspective of the rise of the Gallo via the Ernest and…
