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Ben Justman🍷
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Owner/Winemaker at Peony Lane Wine Low Sulfite wine from the highest elevation vineyards in 🇺🇸 Governor's Cup Award Winner 2022, 2023, 2024
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BenJustman 1 month ago
Unlike most of the people selling you shit on here, I actually grow, produce and sell everything myself. It's just me (and sometimes my dad) There's no middle man between planting the grapes 22 years ago, making the wine, aging it and shipping it to you. image
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BenJustman 1 month ago
Alcohol labels are NOT required to list their ingredients unlike every other food and drink product in America. This is even after the National Consumers League, 67 other organizations, and 4 deans of public health schools petitioned the TTB to require it in 2003. The Wine Institute (California's big trade group) responded fiercely, arguing that nutrition labeling as a concept didn't even work because American obesity had increased since labels were introduced in the 1990s. When the TTB asked for public comment, 94% of responses said no change was needed, which gives you a sense of how organized the industry pushback was. The TTB sat on that petition for 19 years, doing nothing. In 2022, the same coalition had to sue the bureau for failing to act. They won, and the TTB agreed to begin rulemaking on mandatory ingredient labeling. The EU began requiring ingredient labeling on wine starting December 2023. US wine labeling standards have been essentially unchanged since 1935. Zero of the top 67 wine brands in the US voluntarily list ingredients.
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BenJustman 1 month ago
After hearing horror stories for the past week about frost damage destroying entire crops, it's insanely comforting to see my vineyard growing strong. 💪🍇 image
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BenJustman 1 month ago
Look I know I'm a top signal, but hear me out. I think the Bull Market is back. Need proof? Watch this
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BenJustman 1 month ago
The Government is not your friend Corporations are not your friend Government "checks and balances" Corporations Do not expect the Government to save you. You have to save yourself. Get to know your food and bev producers image