Video tasting: Cycles Gladiator Pinot Noir – Banned in Alabama!
Posted on August 20th, 2009
Saved in Sour Grapes recommends, Video, Wine, €15-€20
Made in Californy. Banned in Alabammy.
Title 20 of Alabama’s administrative code, which pertains to the ABC board, states that:
“No advertisement may include any illustration(s) of any person(s) consuming alcoholic beverages or any person(s) posed in an immodest or sensuous manner, nor shall any advertising contain profanity or offensive language.”
A recent interpretation of this has results in the banning of this wine range in Alabama.
The impact of the Ban in ‘Bama?
According to Nick On Wine,
Their website [Hahn Family Wines] went from 100 hits a day to 8,000 and online sales have increased ten fold. In addition their phones have been ringing off the hook with calls from people asking where they can buy the wine.
They couldn’t have bought this kind of exposure for a million dollars, and are even planning a major promotion playing off the recall by creating displays and ads proclaiming “Banned in ’Bama!”
Availability in Ireland?
€16.95 from Cork-based Bubble Brothers
More on the Alabama wine ban…
- Examiner comments on the Albama ban
- Lagniappe Mobile on the Alabammy ban
Thanks for the great review. We’re so pleased that Our Cycles Gladiator has gained a foothold on the Emerald Isle. Seriously one of my favorite places on earth. I spent a month there in 2006, and vow to return again. Wonderful people. Wonderful food. And apparently we share an affinity for Pinot Noir!
Cheers,
Philip Woodrow
Marketing Director
Hahn Family Wines
Thanks for the kind words, Philip. When you’re next town, look me up and we’ll try some of the Black stuff (Guinness, not Cahors)
Great review, Lar! Thanks very much for the exposure (I’ve already thanked the young lady for hers elsewhere). It looks as though you’re really enjoying this clip, which is only as it should be – and of course I’m delighted you share Bubble Brothers’ views on the wine.
Perhaps Philip would care to pay us a visit too when he’s next over – can’t see Dublin without seeing Cork if it’s good food you’re looking for!
I think the label would have passed if the rider had been of the indeginous specie: do not forget, we are talking Alabama. The price is right and apparently the review was excellent. Alabaman’s will have to go to a bordering state. Since we produce and drink something substituting for “Ripple” a good moderate priced Pinot would be wasted.
I think the label is shocking and a disgrace. You can’t even see her goodies, it’s deplorable.
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