Alcohol Beverage

• Winery Development – Legal advice for vintners navigating land use entitlement and regulatory processes for winery construction, expansion, marketing and trade practices.
• Represented California nursery in negotiation of first of its kind contract for the licensing of clonal vine-plant material from Établissement Nationale Technique Pour L’Amélioration de la Viticulture.
  Attorney(s): James Terry
• Supervising counsel in title, land use, alcohol beverage and legal review of international wine company winery and vineyard holdings in Napa, Sonoma, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties.
  Attorney(s): James Terry
• Provided legal advice to numerous vineyard owners seeking to make their own wine, including advice on business and licensing structures, navigation of land use entitlement process for winery construction and marketing and trade practice issues.
  Attorney(s): Thomas Carey
• Drafting and submission of formal comments responding to Notices of Proposed Rulemaking by the Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax & Trade Bureau on policies governing petitions to establish and modify American Viticultural Areas
  Attorney(s): Richard Mendelson
• Successfully petitioned the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to establish American Viticultural areas...
  Attorney(s): Richard Mendelson
• Represented Napa Valley Vintners before California Supreme Court in Bronco Wine Co., v. Cal. ABC and Napa Valley Vintners, 33 Cal.4th 943 (2004), 29 Cal.Rptr 3d 462 (2005)
  Attorney(s): Richard Mendelson
• Represent Napa Valley Vintners in worldwide protection of the Napa name
  Attorney(s): Richard Mendelson
• Represented clients before ABC and TTB in licensing and regulatory matters