Less Time in the Bottle

Winemaker Angelo Papagni, who pled guilty two years ago to falsely selling Barbera Grapes as Zinfandel and was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, has had his prison term reduced by three months, making him eligible for release this week. Los Angeles attorney David Katz appealed to U.S. District Court on the grounds that Papagni was sentenced without key facts being told to him, and Judge Oliver Wanger agreed to vacate the original sentence and re-sentence him last Friday--under new rules that reduced the sentence to 15 months.