{"id":915,"date":"2013-09-21T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T09:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wood.nu\/?p=915"},"modified":"2013-09-21T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T09:08:25","slug":"california-white-is-virtually-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"California White is (virtually) No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2013\/09\/image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2013\/09\/image.jpg\" alt=\"California White\" width=\"300\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-919\" srcset=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2013\/09\/image.jpg 300w, http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2013\/09\/image-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 3 liter boxes of the wine sold as California White are no longer available at Sweden&#8217;s state monopoly liquor stores, the only place you can buy wine over the counter in the country. This is sad because it was a decent and inexpensive table wine from California.<\/p>\n<p>Not a great wine for weekend parties, but a nice wine for drinking at dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago this was described as the stores&#8217; most popular product. Yesterday I was told in a store that it had been removed because there was so little demand.<\/p>\n<p>What happrned? At the height of its popularity the wine had a different name. It was called Golden Gate. But a company in California sued over name infringement. The weird thing was the company was not called Golden Gate, it was called Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, but I wonder if the Swedish judge just didn&#8217;t understand the difference?<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise it was the same wine in the same box, with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. But obviously California White didn&#8217;t give the same feeling.<\/p>\n<p>While the 3 liter boxes are off the shelves, the smaller 750 ml cartons remain, at least for the time being. And the large boxes remain in Systembolaget&#8217;s catalog, so they can be ordered. Right now that means pick up in a store, but within the next two weeks Systembolaget is opening up its home delivery service.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery cost is excessive, apparently part of their mission to discourage alcohol consumption while holding the monopoly on its sale. But eventually one might be able to get a bunch of boxes of California White delivered to your door.<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-915\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">59.365279<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">18.133172<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3 liter boxes of the wine sold as California White are no longer available at Sweden&#8217;s state monopoly liquor stores, the only place you can buy wine over the counter in the country. This is sad because it was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=915\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzSx-eL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}