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Feature Article
The US Treasury Department's Tax and Trade Bureau says it is so overwhelmed with new AVAs-within-AVAs petitions that it is suspending granting any more.
The Big Freeze: Money and Politics Stop AVA Petitions in Their Tracks
Calistoga AVA Dustup Now Goes Beyond Napa Valley.
by
Alan Goldfarb
August 9, 2007
Calling the Treasury Department’s action last week that temporarily suspended the issuance of any more American Viticultural Areas (AVA), “a major freeze,” Wine Institute’s general counsel Wendell Lee has sounded a warning that the AVA system cries out for tougher scrutiny.
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