Since he had quit his job, he tried to find another but had difficulty: he couldn’t even get a job as a server at some BYOB restaurants in New Jersey where he had worked growing up. He bounced around a few places including Italian Wine Merchants, Babbo and Inoteca North and briefly at sales for a wine importer. 35 Greenwich Ave. MORE >>

Speaking of the FTC, Blake Gray, former wine columnist for the SF Chronicle, has a lengthy post decrying the fact that the new FTC regulations come down harder on blogs than they do traditional media. Joe Montana’s 500 acre estate that spans the Sonoma-Napa county line, is up for sale. And they’re not about the turkey. MORE >>

Buying crudite and rosé at the same time might help New York solve its budgetary woes. To recap the budgetary logic, he proposed to more than double the excise tax on wine and increase the points of sale beyond the 2,400 wine and liquor stores in the state and allow the 19,000 grocery stores to sell wine. MORE >>

Franzia over their new Australian wine, Down Under. “Bronco’s use of Casella’s iconic square brackets and its use of Australian-centric wording in connection with the sale of Australian wine are likely to confuse consumers,&# the lawsuit said. Franzia’s Bronco Wine Co. also makes “Two Buck Chuck.&#. MORE >>

Now the New York Times jumps into the pool with the announcement yesterday that they will be starting the New York Times Wine Club. The press release states “The New York Times Wine Club is operated independently of The Times’s critics or other members of the news department.&# MORE >>