Not Port Wine from Portugal
It appears that this winery was not allowed to call their 17.1% alc./vol. dessert wine a Port Wine, because it’s made and bottled in Florida rather than Portugal. But rather than give up and call it something boring, they found a witty but fairly subtle and lawyerly way to get their point across.
Tags: international, legally interesting/controversial, policy, writing/witty/funny
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October 16th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
… but they misspelled “its” as “it’s.” where was the copy editor?
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Not that I would call shenanigans, but there are ports made in the USA.
http://www.deandeluca.com/wine/wine-by-price/35-50-wine/edge-hill-vintage-port-2005.aspx
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
no, they had it right…”it’s” is correct. grammar 101.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:27 am
“It’s” is short for “it is”
January 1st, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Here is a California winery dealing with the same issue and proposing a computer-oriented solution rather than a nautical-oriented solution: http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2008/10/usb-port-wine.html.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:01 am
P*rt Wine | bevlog | beer, wine, spirits trends | beverage blog says:[...] Kobalt refrained from calling their Napa Valley dessert wine “Port” and instead described it as “wine made in the same ‘old world tradition’ as that of the country to the west of Spain.” Another example is here: Not Starboard. [...]
August 11th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
The term “Starboard” rather than port has been used for many years by the Quady Winery in Madera, CA.