* Fred Franzia, CEO, Bronco Wine Company and Classic Wines of California

The Franzia brand today has no business relationship with Fred Franzia of the Bronco Wine Company, known for its low-cost Charles Shaw wines.

Grapevines growing on the grounds of the Bronco Wine Company in Ceres, California.

The Bronco Wine Company is a vintner that produces wines under many brands and is based in Ceres, California.

CEO Fred Franzia, nephew of wine legend Ernest Gallo, started Bronco Wine in 1973, with his brother, Joseph, and cousin, John Franzia, after the Franzia winery business was purchased by Coca-Cola and then later by the Wine Group, a privately held bulk wine producer based in San Francisco ( the source of the " bag-in-box " wines that bear the Franzia name, but which have no connection to either the Franzia family or to Bronco ).

Bronco Wine is best known for its Charles Shaw brand, commonly nicknamed " Two Buck Chuck ", varietals that retail for $ 1. 99 a bottle at Trader Joe's stores in California and some other states.

In 1993 Franzia and Bronco Wine Company were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy to defraud by misrepresenting cheaper grapes as premium Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon.

The Bronco Wine Company maintains over 50 brands of wine, including:

* Fred Franzia Warms at 30th Anniversary of Bronco Wine Company by Paul Franson from Wine Business Monthly in June 2004.

The Ford Explorer is a sport-utility vehicle sold in North America and built by the Ford Motor Company since 1990, as a replacement for the smaller but related Ford Bronco II.

By 1971, major sponsors such as Olympia Brewing Company and Minolta Cameras began to support Parnelli Jones in his Dick Russell designed and Bill Stroppe prepared " Big Oly " Bronco and Larry Minor in a similar Stroppe prepared Bronco.

Shoemaker was involved in a solo drunk-driving car accident on April 8, 1991, in San Dimas, California, when he rolled over the Bronco II he was driving.

For example, a call made to ABC News during the low-speed police chase of O. J. Simpson's Ford Bronco through the streets of Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, signed off with " And Baba Booey to y'all!

* Bronco Student Center, a student activity center at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ( Cal Poly Pomona )

Shoemaker was paralyzed from the neck down after rolling his Bronco II in California in 1991.

Franzia, his brother, and a cousin co-own Bronco and control at least < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 35, 000 acres ( 140 km² )</ span > of vineyards under cultivation in the Central Valley, more than any other entity ... Bronco also controls its own distribution company, Classic Wines of California ... an empire that stretches from near Sacramento to the edge of the Tehachapi Mountains an hour north of Los Angeles, where Bronco is busy planting at least one new " section " -- which is to say, < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 640 acres ( 2. 6 km² )</ span >, or a square mile -- each year.

With Denver deep in its own end of the field, Bronco tight end Clarence Kay caught a pass from Elway for a gain of 25 yards.

Meanwhile, the Redskins could not generate any offensive momentum in the first quarter, with the Bronco defense forcing a punt on every drive.

However, the Redskin offense began to click upon Williams ' return with 14: 17 left in the second quarter, and much as they had in the second half of Super Bowl XXI against the New York Giants the Bronco defense seemed to collapse.

Peter Breck played Roosevelt in 1961 episode " Yankee Tornado " of the ABC series Bronco.

In the tradition of their B Pictures, the studio followed up with a series of rapidly produced popular Westerns, such as Maverick, Bronco, and Colt. 45.

* March 10 – Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor ( d. 1971 )

Offering the then-popular open body style and Dodge's powerful V8 engines, the Ramcharger was a strong competitor for trucks like the Ford Bronco, Chevrolet Blazer and International Harvester Scout II.

Eastwood directed and played the lead role in the 1980 comedy Bronco Billy alongside Locke, Scatman Crothers, and Sam Bottoms.

Eastwood has cited Bronco Billy as being one of the most relaxed shoots of his career and biographer Richard Schickel has argued that Bronco Billy is Eastwood's most self-referential character.

The couple starred in six films together: The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way but Loose, Bronco Billy, Any Which Way You Can, and Sudden Impact.

A group of Chiricahua ( aka the Nameless Ones or Bronco Apache ) who were not captured by U. S. forces refused to surrender.

He discovered disco / soul artists, Viola Wills and Felice Taylor in 1965 and signed them to Mustang / Bronco Records, for which he was working as A & R manager for Bob Keane, the man who discovered Ritchie Valens.

Within two years, Warner Bros. was producing ten hours of programming for ABC each week, mostly interchangeable detective and western series, including Cheyenne, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside 6, Bronco, Hawaiian Eye, and Colt. 45.

Before O. J. Simpson took a slow ride in a white Bronco, and before everyone close to his case had an agent and a book contract.

The other two series were Casablanca, another TV version of a renowned movie ( featuring Charles McGraw in Humphrey Bogart's role ), and Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker, a Western later produced by Roy Huggins that went on to its own time slot for several years until it started rotating with Bronco, another Warner Bros. Western.

The " SUB " brings together an eclectic mix of services under one roof, including the Boise State Bookstore, Bronco Gear apparel shop, bowling lanes, arcade, an art gallery, several fast food restaurants, banquet facilities and other student services.

Viticulture and winemaking in the area date back to the 19th century, with the foundation of the Seneca Lake Wine Company in 1866 marking the first major winery in the area.

In 1921, five local men purchased a wood barrel factory just south of the present D. W. Putnam Wine Company, and named it the Aerial Service Corporation.

The Pleasant Valley Wine Company, founded in 1860 and a mile southwest, was designated U. S. Bonded Winery No. 1 and has eight remarkable stone buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In addition to Pleasant Valley Wine Company complex, other sites on the National Register of Historic Places are: Germania Wine Cellars, Gold Seal Winery, Hammondsport Union Free School, Mallory Mill, and the Pulteney Square Historic District.

* Pleasant Valley Wine Company and Great Western Winery

The Pleasant Valley Wine Company was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The island is also home to The Kelley's Island Wine Company, originally one of the largest wineries in the U. S., established in 1872.

Oak Street in Roanoke is the newly redeveloped Old Town District which is the home for a number of restaurants, such as Babe's Chicken Dinner House, Twisted Root Burger Company, Cowboy Chow, Gerhard's German Restaurant, Brix Pizza and Wine, and the 4 Star, Classic Cafe.

In 1756, during the rule of the Marquês de Pombal, the Companhia Geral da Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro ( C. G. A. V. A. D., also known as the General Company of Viticulture of the Upper Douro or Douro Wine Company ), was founded to guarantee the quality of the product and fair pricing to the end consumer.

He created the Douro Wine Company which demarcated the Douro wine region for production of Port, to ensure the wine's quality ; his was the first attempt to control wine quality and production in Europe.

* Thomas Hardy ( winemaker ) ( 1830 – 1912 ), founder of the Hardy Wine Company

* Hardy Wine Company

In 1963, Woolery worked as a wine consultant for Wasserstrom Wine & Import Company in Columbus, Ohio.

* The Hardy Wine Company, an Australian wine company

* Wild Irish Rose, an alcoholic beverage produced by Canandaigua Wine Company

* Eight cars originally built for Northern Pacific by the Pullman Company in the early 1900s are now used in daily service on the Napa Valley Wine Train ( NVRR ).

The Court of Master Sommeliers, ( CMS ) established in 1977, is the examining body for the Master Sommelier Diploma, the Advanced Sommelier Certificate, the Certified Sommelier Certificate, and the Introductory Sommelier Certificate, and was created under the supervision of the following British based institutions: The Vintners Company, The Institute of Masters of Wine, The British Hotels & Restaurants Association, The Wine and Spirit Trade Association of Great Britain and The Wholesale Tobacco Trade Association.

The Royal Wine Company, also known as Kedem, is a Kosher food manufacturing and distribution company, incorporated in the United States for the last fifty years, started by the Pluczenik brothers in the 1940s and run by the Herzog family since 1958.

The Royal Wine Company currently sells over a million cases of Kosher wine and grape juice annually, in sixteen countries worldwide.

Living in New York City, Eugene Herzog began working for the Royal Wine Company, then owned by the Pluczenik brothers ; and part of his salary was paid in company shares.

In 2006 a 135-year vertical ( containing every vintage from 1860 to 2003 ) was sold by The Antique Wine Company in London for $ 1. 5 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a single lot of wine.