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Your Government is Protecting you: First Al-Qaeda and now Brunello

Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 09:16AM by Registered CommenterCraig Camp in | Comments1 Comment

mickey_binos You can feel safer in your bed tonight knowing that the United States government is protecting you from another danger. That new evil is, of course, Brunello di Montalcino that might have a bit of cabernet or merlot adulterating the sangiovese grosso. These are the same consumer protectors that brought you the 75% rule for American varietal wines, which requires that the stated variety make up at least three quarters of the named wine. So while it’s fine for an American producer of pinot noir to blend in 25% syrah or anything else the missteps of a few producers in Brunello will bring down the wrath of the TTB on all producers.

It’s great to know that our government is always on the watch.

US threatens to block all Brunello imports - decanter.com

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Craig, I'm thinking of penning a new song, à la Lynard Skynard: "Working for [the] TTB."

Thanks for this post and helping to give readers/consumers some perspective on this.

My sources tell me that producers are rushing to get tested by the June 9 deadline.
May 15, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJeremy Parzen

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