Word: corks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never knew what hit it. By late 1995, after a heady decade of 15%-to-20% annual sales growth, Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay began to falter. Gallo's Turning Leaf, priced at $6, was cheaper than Kendall-Jackson's $10 bottle; but its packaging, from the flanged top, visible cork and thin, cigar-band neck wrapper down to its multicolored grape leaf, was strikingly similar...
...suit matched two of California's most stubborn and litigious vintners, Jackson and Ernest Gallo, over whether Gallo's Turning Leaf Chardonnay was designed to cleverly imitate the look (and sales success) of Kendall Jackson's top-selling Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Indeed, with its flanged top, visible cork and yellowing grape leaf, Gallo's bottle looks remarkably similar. It's been similar in the stores, as well: in just two years, Turning Leaf has rocketed into second place in the premium varietal market. For jurors, the similarities were not enough to prove that Gallo duplicated the 'trade dress...
...thought he was coming back to be a coach. Either that or to cork our bats."--John Franco, about Mets' teammate Howard Johnson, who last played in the big league...
...dangerous. And there aren't enough troops to police such an effort. Too much blood has been shed in the last three and a half years to forgive and forget." When one bottle of champagne was opened in the Bosna hotel in downtown Sarajevo Tuesday evening, Bartolini says, "The cork hit a chandelier and shattered it. And one of the people there said, 'Let's hope that's the last victim...
...Cork or no, Belle did something this year that not even Babe Ruth could do: he hit at least 50 homers with at least 50 doubles. He was worthy of the candy bar they named after him in Cleveland; unfortunately, Belle couldn't be bothered to show up for the official unwrapping. As he says, "I'm not really considered a media darling...