Hitler Wine Labels

Posted by Andrew Barrow in News and Comments, 1:00pm 22/10/2007. Leave a comment

I don't think these will be wines we stock anytime soon - and I can't really see the point of them apart from stoking controversy and thus publicity.

Back in September Italian police confiscated 20,000 bottles of wine from the 'Der Fuhrer' range made by Vini Lunardelli, on the basis that they represented 'a glorification of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity'.

The labels certainly look like they glorify Nazism to me but Lunardelli also has labels depicting Napoleon, Franz Joseph, Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in addition to Hitler and Mussolini.

I could understand the attraction if the bottles were historically interesting, actual bottles of the time, but why would you produce them now? According to Decanter Andrea Lunardelli was able to convince the judges that he had no political agenda so the wines are released and available for sale.

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