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Kirchhof & Neubarth, I believe, was a Chicago area distributor of wines and liquors...

National Wine Company...

Here's an Australian label from years ago that you might mistake for a German brand:

From Bethlehem...the Holy Land...


Richard's Wine Cellars...



A California "Rhine Wine."

De Anza College in Cupertino, California now occupies the site of a winery owned by Charles Baldwin who had the Las Flores Vineyard.

Not quite a quart bottle...a California Angelica, usually a sweet wine made of Mission grapes.

Fine Old American Burgundy!

A stock certificate from what is now the Charles Krug winery.


La Salle Wines and Champagne...

1896---New York Wine...

Want to buy stock in a grape growing/brokering company that was formed in the middle of the Prohibition era?
That's Associated Vineyard.

More recently...

Sonoma Vineyards.


Here's a stock certificate from a New Jersey enterprise called Trentini's Winery.


The Robert Mondavi winery "went public" in the early 1990s...

Old Almaden Magazine Advertisement...circa 1974...


Paul Masson Sparkling Burgundy Ad...

Paul Masson 1936 Vintage Cabernet...


Simi advertising from the 1970s...

From the 1950s, an ad for Harvey's of Bristol...

An ad for Sonoma Burgundy made by the Fountain Grove Winery...

Julius Wile lasted into the 1980s before disappearing...

1952 vintage advertising for a California Riesling...


California Wine Advisory Board Advertisement...post World War II.


An early 1980s ad for a popular and sophisticated wine...
Blue Nun.

An old postcard depicting the grape harvest on Napa's Howell Mountain...
Pre-Prohibition, certainly.

REMEMBER RIPPLE?

It was a product labeled "Perry Wine"...made from Pears, not grapes!


HOW ABOUT GALLO'S "THUNDERBIRD" WINE?

BOONE'S FARM WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL "POP" WINES.

An old TV ad for Gallo's Andre "Champagne":

CARLO ROSSI WAS A PITCH-MAN FOR THE GALLO'S "CHEAP" WINE BEARING HIS NAME.

GALLO BRINGS YOU "FINE WINE", AN AD FROM THE 1940s?

GALLO MADE A "JUG" WINE CALLED "PAISANO."

PINK LIKE ROSE, DRINKS LIKE CHABLIS!

CLICK HERE TO SEE A COMPILATION OF TV ADS

ORSON, APPARENTLY, IMBIBED WHILE FILMING THESE ADS...
HERE'S A TRIO OF "OUT-TAKES"...

PERHAPS AFTER DEALING WITH THE BE-SOTTED MR. WELLS, PAUL MASSON HIRED THE DIGNIFIED SIR JOHN GIELGUD.

ITALIAN SWISS COLONY...

HERE'S A VERY OLD TV AD FOR GALLO...

THE WINE SAN FRANCISCANS PREFER...

CLICK HERE TO SEE AN OLD AD FOR GALLO'S SPANADA WINE

MATEUS ROSE, LIKE A TRIP TO PORTUGAL!

AN OLD COMMERCIAL FOR KORBEL "CHAMPAGNE"

GALLO PINK CHABLIS:  A SPECIAL WINE TO SHARE

AN INTERESTING AD FOR GALLO WINES...

ANOTHER AD FOR GALLO...

A NICE MUSICAL GALLO HARVEST COMMERCIAL

A MORE MODERN AD FROM ERNEST & JULIO...

DO YOU REMEMBER SPANADA'S COMPETITOR, "MADRIA MADRIA SANGRIA?"

WITH PAUL MASSON BEING TOUTED BY ORSON WELLS, THE GALLOS HIRED ACTOR PETER USTINOV TO ADVERTISE THEIR WINE.

THERE WAS A TV AD FOR CELLA LAMBRUSCO...

A MORE MODERN AD FOR BERINGER...


AN OLD TV AD FOR AN AUSSIE WINE (BEFORE AMERICANS KNEW AUSTRALIA EVEN MADE WINE)...MELODY HILL

AMERICAN WINE WRITER ALEXIS LICHINE PURCHASED A CHATEAU IN BORDEAUX (PRIEURE-LICHINE AS IT'S KNOWN TODAY) AND HAD HIS NAME ON A NUMBER OF ORDINARY FRENCH TABLE WINES.

HERE'S AN AUSSIE TV AD FOR McWILLIAMS "CHABLIS"

ALMADEN'S GOLDEN CHABLIS WAS A BIG HIT.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THAT ONE.

A CHARMING AD FOR THE ITALIAN SOAVE WINE FROM THE BOLLA FAMILY

HARVEY'S BRISTOL CREAM...NEVER SERVE THE COFFEE WITHOUT THE CREAM!
CLICK HERE TO SEE A HARVEY'S TV AD

AN OLD TV AD FOR CHRISTIAN BROTHERS WINES...
The Difference Between Eating and Dining.


HERE'S A RECENT TV AD FOR BARKAN WINES FROM ISRAEL,
THOUGH YOU MIGHT NEVER KNOW WHOSE PRODUCTS ARE BEING PROMOTED.

A 1969 VINTAGE TV AD FOR GALLO PINK CHABLIS,
A WINE TO SHARE.


A JAZZY TV AD FOR FREIXENET CAVA WITH KIM BASSINGER AS A JAZZ CABARET SINGER.

HERE'S AN OLD TV AD FOR A GERMAN SPARKLING WINE...
KESSLER SEKT

HERE'S A DISCO AD FOR GALLO'S THUNDERBIRD WINE.
Yum!

A CUTE AD FOR FRENCH TV FOR PIAT D'OR...

A TV AD FOR VEUVE DU VERNAY SPARKLING WINE...

HERE'S AN OLD AD FROM AMERICAN TV WITH CARLO ROSSI TOUTING HIS WONDERFUL "BURGUNDY."
https://youtu.be/BYXskJmGLow

HERE'S A RECENT TV SPOT FOR VAMPIRE WINE.

A BRITISH TV AD FOR CROFT SHERRY...
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A CURIOUS AD FOR A PORTUGUESE WINE FAIR

A 4 minute video for Bollinger (and James Bond)


ROBERT MONDAVI WINERY HAD A LITTLE TV SPOT:

 
HERE'S AN AD FOR WINE FROM THE FRESCOBALDI WINERY IN ITALY...

He pours the girlfriend some wine and then says "Dear, I have to tell you I went to bed with your sister..."
She seems oblivious to all his confessions and when a bird in the tree overhead "drops" a little something in her glass of wine, she goes ballistic!

HERE'S A CREATIVE SPANISH TV AD FOR THE SHERRY CALLED "TIO PEPE."

THIS IS A CLEVER AD FOR A WINE FROM ARGENTINA...

The host of these Japanese friends has prepared an Argentinean grill and treats them to a wine from Argentina...
It's in Japanese until they taste the wine--then they all speak Spanish!

We used to sell a little Spanish wine called Penascal...
Here's a nice TV commercial for their wine...

HERE'S AN OLD TV AD FOR A WINE FROM ARGENTINA.

This TV commercial for an Argentinean wine features a group of friends and their recently-injured buddy who's going to have a tough time eating or drinking...

HERE'S A TV AD FOR SOME FRENCH "HOUSE WINE."

A 20 Year Old TV Ad for the Wines of Australia's Wolf Blass...

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