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California can now enforce law banning Napa name on non-Napa wines
Posted: January 23, 2006
It's final. Bronco Wine Co. will no longer be able to use "Napa" in the brand names of wines made with few or no Napa grapes. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied without comment to overturn a California labeling law, ending more than five years of litigation and handing a victory to California state authorities and the Napa Valley Vintners.
Posted: December 23, 2005
There's been plenty of action from the federal courts this year, as judges have been forcing states to allow consumers to order directly from wineries and have the bottles shipped to their homes. Even so, people in the wine industry have been keeping a close eye on another legal front.
Posted: December 22, 2005
The European Union has approved a historic trade agreement that will eliminate complicated barriers to wine sales between the United States and Europe, but not before a few countries' representatives took some swipes at the American wine industry, accusing it of turning out soulless "laboratory" wines.
Months of debate ends with wineries and wholesalers agreeing on a 1,500-case limit
Posted: December 6, 2005
After several months of quick-fire legislation, consumer outcry, scathing editorials and tense negotiations, the Michigan legislature finally passed two bills allowing state residents to order wines from local and out-of-state producers and have them shipped directly to their homes.
Posted: November 22, 2005
Only a few days after the Massachusetts legislature passed a controversial bill that would have allowed some small wineries outside the state to ship to Massachusetts residents, Gov. Mitt Romney (R) vetoed the bill.
Posted: November 18, 2005
With most states either allowing all direct-to-consumer shipments of wine or closing them off altogether, the issue has taken a strange turn in Massachusetts. Just a few weeks after a federal judge ruled the state's wine-shipping laws were unconstitutional, the legislature passed a controversial direct-shipping measure on Nov.
In United States, Syrah leads all red varietals in sales growth
Posted: November 16, 2005
For the first time since 1976, Americans are expected to drink more red wine than white in 2005, according to the recently released 2005 edition of The U.S. Wine Market: Impact Databank Review and Forecast.
Posted: November 9, 2005
In a week that has already seen heated activity over the issue, a federal district judge ruled today that a portion of Pennsylvania's laws on wine sales are unconstitutional and that the state can not currently enforce its ban on out-of-state producers selling and shipping directly to its residents.
Posted: November 4, 2005
In Michigan, where the political battle over direct shipment of wine has been particularly fierce, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman ruled from the bench on Nov. 1 that the state must open its borders to allow consumers to order directly from wineries in other states.
Piero Conticelli accused of selling falsely labeled wines to Ruffino and numerous other producers
Posted: October 13, 2005
Italy's fraud squad has arrested a prominent Tuscan vintner, Piero Conticelli, for allegedly selling cheap bulk wines as Chianti Classico to a number of well-known names in the region, including Ruffino.
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