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Bonny Doon Vineyard Comes Clean!

December 22, 2007 – Staff Writer
 

2007 Ca' del Solo AlbariñoAs of 2008, consumers will note that all ingredients are listed in two sections on the back label of each bottle of Bonny Doon wine.

The first section highlights the wine's basic ingredients, i.e. grapes and sulfur dioxide, a preservative, found in the wine. The second section will point out ingredients used in the production of the wine such as bentonite, (a type of clay used to clarify wine prior to bottling) that essentially no longer remains in the wine. The first Bonny Doon Vineyard wines featuring the new ingredient labeling are the Demeter certified Biodynamic® 2007 Ca' del Solo Albariño and 2007 Ca' del Solo Muscat, slated for a February 2008 release.

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MEMOWINE®: A New Label For Your Wine

December 2, 2007 – Staff Writer
  MemoWineThe Poligrafica S.Faustino S.p.A., a printing facility from Brescia, has created and registered a new type of wine label called MemoWine®, which represents important news for the enological world.

It is a self-sticking label which allows for the top part of it to be torn from the bottle and kept, as in the back it bears the high quality print of the miniaturized front label, along with other relevant information about the wine.
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Wine Labels with Nazi images Seized in Italy

September 20, 2007 – Staff Writer
  Nazis labelsOn Wednesday, September 19, 2007, a prosecutor in Bolzano, in the northern Italian region of Trentino Alto Adige, near the Austrian border, seized wine bottle labels bearing portraits of Hitler and other Nazi personalities at the Lunardelli winery, the company reported.

The 20 labels from the Der Fuehrer line show Hitler raising the Nazi salute, as well as some of his generals, including Hermann Goering, the Reich's Minister of Economy, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo, and Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, as well as other Nazis VIPs.
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