Sarah Mirando  |  February 10, 2012

Category: Closed Class Actions

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Award (how much your claim may be worth): You can receive a full refund if you have proof of purchase, or up to $10.50 if you don’t have adequate proof of purchase.

Class Action Lawsuit Settlement Case(s):  Zeller v. E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al., and Constellation Brands, Inc., et al., Case No. BC432711, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County.

Company(ies): E. & J. GALLO WINERY; CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC.; CONSTELLATION WINES U.S., INC.

Website of the Class Action Lawsuit Settlement Administrator (FILE YOUR CLAIM HERE): www.FrenchPinotNoirSettlement.com

Address to submit a claim form (REQUIRED):

To receive your full or partial refund from the French Pinot Noir Class Action Lawsuit Settlement, you must submit a claim form to the Settlement Administrator postmarked on or before March 24, 2012. Claim forms can be downloaded online at www.FrenchPinotNoirSettlement.com.

If mailing by U.S. Postal Service, use the following address:

French Pinot Noir Cases Settlement Administrator
c/o Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC
P.O. Box 6177
Novato, CA 94948-6177

If delivering by another service, such as FedEx or UPS, use the following address:

French Pinot Noir Cases Settlement Administrator
c/o Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC
75 Rowland Way, Suite 250
Novato, CA 94945
Phone Number to call for assistance: (888) 756-1812

Details: A class action lawsuit settlement has been reached with E. & J. Gallo Winery and Constellation Brands over allegations they sold Pinot Noir to U.S. consumers that may not have contained enough amounts of the varietal to be properly labeled “Pinot Noir.” As a result, you may be able to get some money back if you purchased Farallon, Red Bicyclette, Redwood Creek, Rex Goliath, Talus, Turning Leaf or Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi brand French Pinot Noir wines before December 2, 2011.

The Pinot Noir settlement will resolve a class action lawsuit, entitled Zeller v. E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al., and Constellation Brands, Inc., et al., that alleges some French winemakers and a U.S. importer sold millions of bottles of fake Pinot Noir to the United States. The class action lawsuit was filed after a French court convicted 12 French winemakers in 2010 of purposely mislabeling cheap wine under the false label of Pinot Noir for at least three years and importing it to the U.S. There was nothing wrong with this wine other than it contained less of the Pinot Noir varietal than required in order to be labeled “Pinot Noir.”

The Defendants in the French Pinot Noir class action lawsuit bought wine labeled “Pinot Noir” from these French suppliers, receiving in each case official French documentation stating that the wine was Pinot Noir. The companies say they believed that the wine they received was Pinot Noir, and there is no way to determine scientifically if the wine did or did not contain the required amount of Pinot Noir.

The Plaintiffs allege in the fake Pinot Noir class action lawsuit that this wine was still mislabeled when it was sold to U.S. consumers. The Defendants deny these allegations and contend that if they received any mislabeled wine, they themselves were victims of the convicted French suppliers. Nevertheless, they have agreed to make certain reimbursements to consumers who purchased the wines in question in order to assure satisfaction and resolve the claims in the class action lawsuit.

Class Members of the Pinot Noir class action settlement include anyone who purchased one of the following wines in the United States before December 2, 2011 with a label that identifies the wine as Pinot Noir from France, Pays d’Herault, or Languedoc-Roussillon:

Group 1 Wines

Farallon Pinot Noir 2006
Rex Goliath Pinot Noir 2005-2008
Talus Pinot Noir 2005-2007
Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi Pinot Noir 2005-2008

Group 2 Wines

Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir 2005
Redwood Creek Pinot Noir 2005-2007
Turning Leaf Pinot Noir 2006

Class Members that have proof of purchase can file a claim to receive reimbursement of the price they actually paid for the wine, excluding taxes. However, if you don’t have adequate evidence of your purchase(s), you can still file a claim to receive $3.50 per bottle you purchased, up to a collective total of $10.50. This $10.50 maximum would apply to all purchases of any combination of qualifying French vintages of Group 1 Wines, and it would also apply separately to all purchases of any combination of qualifying French vintages of Group 2 Wines.

To receive your cash reimbursement from the French Pinot Noir class action lawsuit settlement, you must submit a claim form postmarked on or before May 24, 2012.

Claim forms and more information on your rights in the French Pinot Noir Class Action Lawsuit Settlement can be found at www.FrenchPinotNoirSettlement.com.

Purchased or Leased From:  Before December 2, 2011

Claims must be postmarked by: 5/24/12

Settlement Administrator(s): Kurtzman Carson Consultants

Class Counsel:

Kingsley & Kingsley

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13 thoughts onFrench Pinot Noir Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

  1. mr. b says:

    Garden city group should be investigated they are cheating a lot of people out of millions of dollars and their getting away with it.

  2. Phil Johnson says:

    Seems like the settlement administartor did it again as usual. Paying lowest like 10.50 eventhough people have receipts for 10 or 30 bottles. If they dont want to pay or dont like your name address ( which is sitting in dispose this guy/gal file )they will pay nothing and no answer and dispose your claims in shredder.These seems to be going mostly at CGC dublin ohio and nobody knows. Settlement administrators are kings and they have no one to report how money was distributed so they may even take huge cuts . Public dont know and will never know.

  3. Steve-Oh says:

    Check came in Monday for $10.50!!!

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