Source: Decanter
by Richard Woodard
Friday 18 January 2013
Piedmont
winery Trinchero has had to remove the family name from its wine labels in the
US after facing a legal threat from the maker of the Sutter Home brand,
according to reports.
The
website of the Houston Press said Trinchero Family Estates - the
California-based maker of Sutter Home and Trinchero Napa Valley - had written to
Agliano Terme-based Trinchero threatening legal action.
Monica
Riessent, export director at the Barbera d'Asti producer, told the site that the
winery could not afford to fight the American Trinchero in the
courts.
'They said
that they'd allow us to sell our wine in the US,' she told the site, 'but they
insisted on a number of restrictions in the contract they sent: we could only
sell a limited number of bottles . In the end, we knew that we couldn't fight
it.'
Neither
Trinchero (Piedmont) nor Trinchero Family Estates could be reached for comment
on the reports.
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