The most infamous lawsuit of recent years was the faceoff between the company that owns Cristal, the mega-pricey Champagne, and the $7 Spanish cava, Cristalino. But there have been a fair number of others, including Anheuser-Busch vs. an Argentine wine producer called Budini, and YellowTail vs. the Wine Group, who were fighting whether a kangaroo looked like a wallaby.
As much fun as these were, they pale in comparison to what could be the next big trademark and tradedress lawsuit in the wine business — if E&J Gallo and the Wine Group square off over two fabulously successful brands, Gallo’s Barefoot and Wine Group’s flipflop. More, after the jump: