Scandal in the Languedoc this week, as a dozen people employed in its world-famous wine industry were convicted by a French court of orchestrating a extraordinary scam: between January 2006 and March ...
It began with Ernest and Julio, two young brothers working with their father in California during Prohibition, shipping grapes to Italian-American families like theirs who wanted to make wine at home.
In 1985, Frank Bartles and Ed Jaymes introduced themselves to consumers in a sequence of television commercials pitching their new drink: "You know, it occurred to Ed the other day that between his ...
In 1999, Wine Spectator editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken traveled to California wine country to interview the famously private wine industry legend Ernest Gallo, who with his brother Julio ...