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Two Buck Chuck Still Making Waves

Monday, May 28, 2007 4:14:06 PM
By MICHELLE LOCKE

Wine bottles move toward a washing and filling area at the Bronco Wine Company facility in Napa, Calif., Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Round and round they go, thousands of wine bottles rattling and clinking their way toward the big machine that deftly fills, corks and seals each one in a rhythmic dance of metal and glass. An astounding 55,000 cases a day are coming out of this Napa Valley bottling plant, more than some upscale wineries make in a year. And it's owned not by some blue-blooded purveyor of high-end reds but by Fred Franzia, famous for Two Buck Chuck and the ten bucks taboo, as inNAPA, Calif. (AP) - Round and round they go, hundreds of bottles of Two Buck Chuck rattling and clinking their way toward a big machine that deftly fills, corks and seals each one in a rhythmic dance of metal and glass.

It's been five years since the first of these amazingly cheap chardonnays and cut-price cabernets started rolling off the line, released by maverick vintner Fred Franzia under the formal label of Charles Shaw wines.

Three hundred million bottles later, Two Buck Chuck is still selling, and Franzia is still preaching his message of wine for the masses.


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