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The Napa Name Holds Meaning for California Justices


— May 25, 2004

Chief Justice Ronald George apparently doesn’t like his Napa Valley wines being produced with grapes not grown in the Napa Valley.

Neither, it seems, do most of his fellow justices.

That came across on Monday as the California Supreme Court heard arguments in a wine-labeling case that pits the state and the Napa Valley Vintners Association against the Bronco Wine Co., the nation’s fourth-largest producer of bulk wines, such as the $1.99 “Two Buck Chuck.”

Details here from The Recorder via Law.com.


Chief Justice Ronald George apparently doesn’t like his Napa Valley wines being produced with grapes not grown in the Napa Valley.

Neither, it seems, do most of his fellow justices.

That came across on Monday as the California Supreme Court heard arguments in a wine-labeling case that pits the state and the Napa Valley Vintners Association against the Bronco Wine Co., the nation’s fourth-largest producer of bulk wines, such as the $1.99 “Two Buck Chuck.”

Details here from The Recorder via Law.com.

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