Cycles Gladiator Banned in Bama

Back to July 31, 2009 when Alabama Bans Cycles Gladiator Nude Nymph Wine Label, The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board told stores and restaurants to quit serving Cycles Gladiator wine because of the label violated Alabama rules against displaying "a person posed in an immoral or sensuous manner."

The mythological nude nymph flying alongside her winged bicycle artwork in the classic wines from California’s Central Coast label was originally an advertising poster of Cycles Gladiator, a French manufacturer of bicycles and cars Started in Paris in 1891 by Alexandre Darracq and based in Pré St Gervais, Seine. The image of the 1895 year Paris advertising poster symbolizes a celebration of the freedom and happiness that pervaded Europe in the late 19th century, and captures the grace and uninhibited beauty of hillside vineyards. According to Cycles Gladiator, "Americans then might have been shocked by the thought of a woman wearing pantaloons or bloomers pedaling a bicycle, but the French understood what sold products—thus the 'uninhibited' appearance of the Cycles Gladiator advertising poster".