From WineSpectator.com:
Bill Legion just loves Alabama. No, he's not the governor or even a native. It's all because Alabama banned his wine Cycles Gladiator, deeming the label "pornographic," and he couldn't be happier. "The publicity from this is so much greater than any wine we'd ship to Alabama," says Legion, president of Hahn Family Wines in Soledad, Calif. The Cycles Gladiator label, a replica of an 1895 French bicycle advertisement, features a fanciful image of a nude woman flying alongside a bike amid a star-filled sky. "It's absurd to think it's pornographic," Legion says, who points out the Alabama Beverage Control Board had approved the label in previous years. The control board even went so far as to ask the winery never to submit the label again, Legion says, "because it's offending people in the office." Banning things is a rich tradition in Alabama. Nearly half the state is dry, no alcohol, nada. It recently outlawed the sale of all sex toys, and interracial marriage was technically illegal until 2000.
4 comments:
Weird! I feel sort of sure I saw that in the store, or even bought it for my AL cyclist friend. Now I doubt my own memory. Fiddle. I'll look at the store...
p.
And hey - happy birthday a few days late!
:)
Oh ugh. Just read column in the Montgomery Advertiser...
http://montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20090810/LIFESTYLE/908100308/Board-saves-Alabamians-from-lovely-wine-label
that's a bummer shame, as cycles makes a pretty ok wine. i got half a mind to send you a bottle with black censor bars over the relevant parts because what the fuck, the south
j (from poe-news)
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