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Napa China?

Craig Camp

By Craig Camp
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Of course, California still permits vintners to use the names Burgundy, Chablis, Rhine wine, Chianti and Champagne on bottles of its wines.

A few years some Italian visitors were stunned to see the town of "ASTI" on their visit to Sonoma County. :shock:

And I believe, if memory serves, the Chablis producer William Fevre labeled a wine he sold in the Orient with the name "Napa" somewhere on it. I think it was a Beaujolais of some sort and he did it to poke Napa vintners to stop using the word Chablis on bottles of their wines.

Eventually the last holdouts, Charles Krug and BV stopped using that name on their wines.

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