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Article: Lust for life
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2009
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Wine
It was while using the rest room of the Blue Frog Cantina in
Fairfield, Atlanta, that Bill Leigon spotted the charming Belle
Epoque poster of a winged bicycle with a nubile nymph clutching its
handlebars. Mr Leigon, president of California's Hahn Estates winery
in Monterey, took an instant fancy to the late 19th-century poster
created for the Montmartre-based French bicycle manufacturer,
Fernand Clement et Cie, by Frenchman G Massias. As any astute brand
manager might, he turned it into a wine label and called the wine
Cycles Gladiator.
Although it had been selling for three years in Alabama without
complaint, last month its Beverage Control Board deemed the label
"immodest" and ...