A Loaf Of Bread, A Wine Of Jugs And Thou

May, 1988

Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder, and when the eye of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms beheld the bare-breasted woman adorning this wine label, it declared it obscene and prohibited the wine from being sold in the U.S.Dot Koester, spokeswoman for the BATF, offers this explanation: "The breasts on this label were upthrust and very evident. If the picture had been a masterpiece, then it would have been allowed; but it wasn't, so it's obscene." Although the design w...