Wine That’s Banned in ’Bama
Nude Cyclist Label
NUDE ON A BIKE: The coffee shop gang got to talking about Alabama’s weird ban on a risqué wine label called Cycles Gladiator.
Seems as though the ’Bama liquor authority put the kibosh on the California label depicting a nude woman with long red hair flying through the stars with a bicycle. It’s from artist Georges Massias’s 1905 art nouveau poster for a French bike maker.
Although the wine is available in the other 49 states, Alabama regulations prohibit labels showing “a person posed in an immoral or sensuous manner.” Restaurants can’t serve it. The wine, made by Soledad-based Hahn Family Wines, retails for about $10 and has sold about 600,000 cases since 2006.
