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Monday, June 9, 2008

Wine on French Web caught in Legal Web

June 9, 2008

Lingering uncertainty continues to exist whether or not wine ads on the Internet are legal in France and this perceived neo prohibitionist policy is angering wine professionals in Bordeaux, reports AFP.

In February this year, Heineken was forced to close its French website as the judge in the case filed against it by an anti-alcohol group ruled that since Internet was not on a 1991 list of approved media for alcohol publicity, web-based wine, beer and any alcohol ads were illegal.
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