61. Franzen bucked the system when he started selling wine at his store in the southwestern town of Roestaanga. 62. He started selling wine for his customers to take away. 63. Residents sell homemade wine for a few dollars from their homes, but the best is found at the San Lorenzo Hacienda, also called Casa Madero. 64. The announcement chilled the hopes of small California wineries which hoped the site would develop the Internet into an alternative channel through which to sell wine. 65. Three years ago, Franzen defied the state-run alcohol monopoly by openly selling wine to customers in a small town in southwestern Sweden. 66. Wealthy Bordeaux vintners who sold them wine were heavily fined. 67. The wine is being sold by creditor banks of Nuits-Saint-Georges-based merchants SBCM, which pledged its stock as collateral for loans before collapsing. |