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Bill
 
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Default Fred Franzia's Day in Court


Fred Franzia, the wine entrepreneur who brought us Two Buck Chuck, has
been in court in a go around with the California Alcohol Board.
Seems Fred bought Napa Ridge and Napa Creek wineries and proceeded
to fill all his bottles with central valley grape juice. California
does not like that with the name Nape on the bottle so they told
him to stop. The Feds grandfathered the two wineries in because they
were in existence before 1986. He has federal permission to use the
label but California says no no. Good old Fred also built a
wine processing and bottling plant in the town of Napa and now all
his central valley wines have "Cellared and Bottled in Napa" on
the label. It is projected to take 80 days to get a court decision.


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Default Fred Franzia's Day in Court

Actually this round was a hearing before the California Supreme Court last
week. They have all of this month plus 90 more days in which to issue their
ruling.
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