RIP Ernest Gallo

Thanks for the feedback, Hoke -- the family business really bothered me. I wondered if I was missing part of the story.

OTOH, and I am not trying to be a E&J Gallo apologist here, around these parts they have created a lot of jobs in an area with a chronic 12-18% unempoyment rate. So some good has come of the business.

Night Train soon was a major competitor for Ripple and Mad Dog 20/20 among skid row drunks.


-Paul W.

Tiny, pedantic note: Gallo produced Ripple, too.

Ellen Hawkes, Blood and Wine: The Unauthorized Story of the Gallo Wine Empire. I got it slightly wrong. They left empties out on skid row, and it was Thunderbird, not Night Train.

-Paul W.

Thanks for the clarification, Paul.


My understanding, from my limited study of the subject, the wine of choice amongst derelicts is White Port.


I won't go into detail, but it has to do with knowing if you need to go to the hospital or not.


Nuff said.